Baldwin Celebrates Its 135th Graduating Class

On June 8, 62 seniors graduated from The Baldwin School as the 135th graduating class. These seniors earned 269 acceptances to 183 unique colleges and universities. More than two-thirds were admitted to their top choice schools.

 

This year's commencement keynote speaker was alumna Kinney Zalesne. She graduated from Baldwin in 1983 and went to Yale and then to Harvard Law School. Afterward, she returned to Philadelphia to clerk for a federal judge and serve as an Assistant District Attorney. In 1995 she was named a White House Fellow, and went to Washington D.C., to work in Vice President Gore’s Domestic Policy Office. After her White House Fellowship, she worked on the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, and then served for 2½ years as Counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno at the Justice Department. In 2005, she became a Senior Strategist on Hillary Clinton’s NY Senate re-election campaign and her presidential bid; also during that time, Kinney co-wrote a bestselling book called Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes, as well as a regular Microtrends column in the Wall Street Journal. In 2009 she founded her own consulting business; and beginning in 2013 she spent almost nine years at Microsoft, most of that time co-leading the Corporate Strategy team.

 

The student class speaker for the 2023 commencement ceremony was Grace Sheehan. Miss Sheehan, who was elected by her peers, delivered her speech on June 8 at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.