After releasing her EP "Nemesis" in 2016, Bridgit Mendler applied to the University of Southern California and started working towards her degree in anthropology. She stayed out of the public eye for a few years, only updating her fans in 2018 that she was now enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pursuing a master's in media arts and sciences. In 2021, the "Merry Happy Whatever" star enrolled in Harvard Law School to get her Juris Doctor. After working on her education, in February 2024, Mendler announced that she is now the co-founder and CEO of Northwood, a space startup with their "sights set on building a data highway between earth and space."
"We are designing shared ground infrastructure from first principles to expand access to space," Mendler wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. "We have a lot of work ahead of us but that's the fun part. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in locations around the globe with real impact, we want you at Northwood."
