MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP BLOG

Aug 20
4 min

Millennium Fellow Advocates for India’s First Integrated Climate Study Center

In December of 2004, Ganesh Dileep was woken up in the dead of the night and forced to flee his home in Kerala ...

Apr 1
3 min

Millennium Fellow Creates Innovative Stem-based Media Site

For Alex IP, inspiration and ultimately social impact came from a failed college application. Alex founded The Xylom...

Mar 10
2 min

Millennium Fellow Lifts the Voice of Women and Transgender Population in Pakistan

Ayesha Noor Fatima was raised in a single-parent household in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Throughout her childhood, she observed the enormous fina

Jan 3
2 min

Millennium Fellow Creates School for Afghan Refugees in Pakistan

What started as one person’s dream is now a 50 person operation that has allowed over 70 refugee children access to education...

Dec 20, 2019
3 min

Millennium Fellow Uses Media to Revolutionize Female Storytelling

Pranjal Jain is a 2019 Millennium Fellow, a student at Cornell University, former undocumented immigrant, and the founder of a revolution...

Nov 29, 2019
3 min

Millennium Fellow In Nigeria Eradicating Poverty through Sustainable Healthcare

Most people approach poverty eradication through resource distribution or access to education. However, David Ogunmola, a student at ...

Nov 15, 2019
3 min

Millennium Fellow to Coordinate a Bold Response to Climate Change

Throughout history, there have been a handful of ingenious innovations that have changed how our global society functions and connects ...

Nov 8, 2019
3 min

Former Refugee and Current Millennium Fellow Helps 349 Refugee Children Access Education

Agaba Dunok was born in a refugee camp in South Western Uganda. Not only did he escape the refugee camp and create a future ...

Nov 1, 2019
3 min

Millennium Fellows in Yemen Combat Malaria

Three Millennium Fellows at Al- Razi University have refocused their public health efforts to focus on the under-spotlighted ...

Oct 24, 2019
3 min

Millennium Fellow hired by the United Nations

For Michael Gallo, being a part of the Millennium Fellowship played a significant role in leading him towards his first job post-graduation.

Oct 17, 2019
2 min

Millennium Fellow Pulls Herself out of Poverty and Helps Others to do the Same

For Shakira Nynagoma, the kindness of strangers has played an invaluable role in life. Shakira lost her mother at an early age. After her m

Oct 10, 2019
3 min

Millennium Fellow from Puerto Rico Tackles Climate Change in the Wake of Hurricane Maria

In 2016, Odaly S. Balasquide Odeh came to a crushing realisation in the happiest place on Earth – Disney Land. Like many other visitors...

Sep 18, 2019
2 min

A Conversation with Shantel Marekera - 2018 Millennium Fellow, Rhodes Scholar, and Founder of Little

In Zimbabwe, many cannot afford the first building block of education – pre-school. Zimbabwe has a unique law which mandates that all studen

Sep 18, 2018
2 min

A Conversation with Tolani Odukoya- 2018 Millennium Fellow, Founder and Executive Director of The Mi

Tolani Odukoya grew up in Lagos, Nigeria in a low-income community. Since his mother could not fund his education, he had to create his own

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