Bridgit Mendler (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Save The Children)
Every few years, a celebrity or two enrolls in law school, and when their graduation time comes, we get to celebrate with them. This year, a Disney Channel alumnus graduated from one of the most elite law schools in the country – – but that isn’t even the most impressive thing she’s done.
Bridgit Mendler, 31, of “Good Luck Charlie” fame, graduated from Harvard Law School earlier this month, crossing the stage with her 4-year-old son. Check out the cute video of that moment:
As noted by E! News, Mendler had also enrolled at MIT to pursue her Ph.D., but had to put those plans on “pause.” Here’s some additional information:
“The PhD is something I started working towards in 2020,” she explained in a March post on X, “and I pursued it jointly with my law degree but when I moved to California last summer and decided that for family reasons we would stay on the west coast, it had to go on pause.”
The Disney Channel alum explained that completing her degree is now “up to the administration and my principal investigator and what they think is appropriate.”
Mendler — who served as co-president of the Harvard Space Law Society — left the Hollywood world to launch a tech startup, Northwood Space, with her husband. She hopes to build ground satellite stations that will act as a “data highway” to and from space.
Congratulations to Bridgit Mendler on her latest accomplishment!
Bridgit Mendler Officially Graduates Harvard Law School [E! News]
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