Actress, comedian, and writer Mindy Kaling delivered a hilarious Class Day address at Harvard Law School in 2014, bringing the house down with jokes about asparagus on the school crest, the Harvard-Yale rivalry, and her running gag about Professor Noah Feldman. But midway through the laughter, she pivoted to a genuinely moving moment about her parents' immigrant journey. Kaling described her family — Indian parents who were raised in India, met in Africa, and moved to America — and how their dream of a future 'unfettered by limitations, dependent only on what you know' was possible only in this country. She called their romance with America 'more romantic than any romantic comedy I could ever write.' Then she turned to the graduates and reminded them that the fairness her family believed in was now in their hands to protect and strengthen.