Speech!

Mindy Kaling ’01 speaks at Commencement.

She’s an accomplished actress, writer, producer, and director. Now add Dartmouth graduation speaker to Mindy Kaling’s list of credits. The former playwriting major has come a long way since sitting in the DAM offices as an undergrad, shyly saying she’d like to write for David Letterman someday. That dream went unfulfilled, but many others took its place. Kaling went on to star in, among other productions, The Office, The Mindy Project, A Wrinkle in Time, and the new Ocean’s 8.

Kaling, who heard former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at her graduation 17 years ago, is the seventh alum to deliver the main address since 1997.

Portfolio

Book cover that says How to Get Along With Anyone
Alumni Books
New titles from Dartmouth writers (March/April 2025)
Woman wearing red bishop garments and mitre, walking down church aisle
New Bishop
Diocese elevates its first female leader, Julia E. Whitworth ’93.
Reconstruction Radical

Amid the turmoil of Post-Civil War America, Amos Akerman, Class of 1842, went toe to toe with the Ku Klux Klan.

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Kirsten Gillibrand ’88
A U.S. senator on 18 years in Washington, D.C.

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