ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2019
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In the three months the application was open in 2019, over 7,000 young leaders applied to join the Class of 2019 on 1,209 campuses across 135 nations. 69 campuses worldwide (just 6%) were selected to host the 805 Millennium Fellows.
During the Millennium Fellowship, Millennium Fellows' dedicated 96,705 hours and their 422 unique projects positively impacted the lives of 564,366 people worldwide.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT JACKSON SCHIEFELBEIN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
Arizona State University | Arizona, United States | Advancing SDG 12 & UNAI 2
" I am excited to have the support of MCN and other Millennium Fellows in working on my campaign at ASU. With this help, I am hopeful I can truly create institutional change to support global livelihoods and ethical consumption and production at my university. Achieving this will support workers around the world with ethical production practices, decrease waste, provide access to education to those currently without that privilege, fight sex trafficking, and support a number of other forms of positive social impact by providing consumers ethical products that facilitate helping others through everyday purchases. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Ethical Procurement Campaign at Arizona State University
The Ethical Procurement Campaign at ASU is an initiative to develop and build support for a comprehensive ethical procurement policy to govern all sourcing that occurs for products on campus. This means expanding current policies that are inclusive of things such as Fair Trade products to affect every product on campus in some way--whether that means everything must be either vegan, zero waste, from a B-Corps, Fair Trade, supportive of global health initiatives, from minority-owned business, etc.
The work done with the Campaign for the duration of the Millennium Fellowship was primarily in the realm of establishing a foundation for education and outreach and partnerships to be created in the future. Through the development of a framework of what the guidelines for this Campaign could be and through meeting with ASU faculty working on similar procurement initiatives, the Campaign is ready to begin no later than Fall 2020 when I return from studying abroad.
About the Millennium Fellow
Jackson Schiefelbein is a sophomore at Arizona State University pursuing concurrent degrees in Sustainability and Global Studies with a Spanish minor. He hopes to work in international development upon graduating. Jackson is the head of the Fair Trade Campaign at ASU and its educational arm, Sun Devils for Fair Trade. He also interns for the City of Phoenix City Manager's Office of Sustainability, works for ASU Changemaker Central to advocate for a culture of sustainability on campus, along with Project Cities as a Marketing and Social Media Aide. Jackson enjoys participating in the United Nations Association at ASU and educating others about the SDGs to support a more sustainable future.
