Milton Academy has announced that the school’s 2025 Graduation speaker is longtime journalist and author Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, Class of 1987.
Currently assistant managing editor for national news at ProPublica, Kodjak is an award-winning journalist whose work has spanned three decades and all media. She started out reporting at The Patriot Ledger, a daily newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts, and went on to work at The Associated Press and Bloomberg News before becoming an on-air correspondent at NPR. Kodjak has worked on several documentary films with Frontline and ABC News, including the Emmy-winning Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK, which streams on Hulu.
“We are so excited Alison will be our 2025 Graduation speaker,” said Head of School Alixe Callen ’88. “A free and vibrant press is critical to our democracy. As an investigative reporter or as an editor, Alison’s work exploring tough issues and holding people and institutions accountable cannot be overstated. We are so proud of her service in the public interest.”
“I am thrilled and honored to serve as this year’s Milton Academy Graduation speaker,” said Kodjak. “Milton is a special place where we students are free to explore our interests, discover our passions and develop our talents. I hope my words will help inspire the Class of ’25 not only to find and pursue careers and lives that they love, but also to use their talents to make our society a better place.”
Graduation Details
This year’s Graduation ceremony will be held on the lawn in front of Robert Saltonstall Gymnasium on Friday, June 6, at 9:30 a.m, rain or shine. Graduates should arrive at 8 a.m. A live stream of the event will be linked from Milton’s homepage on the morning of the ceremony. The formal Graduation procession begins at Straus Library. A bagpiper then leads the faculty and seniors in a march to their seats.
