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 CAROLINA BARRERA SILVA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
CETYS Universidad | Ensenada, Mexico | Advancing SDG 10 & UNAI 6
" I’m delighted for being part of the 2019 Millennium Fellowship class, as well as I feel so honored to have an opportunity like this. I’ve always felt that we as a society can do so much more to improve the lives of others, and really treat our planet as our home. I’m committed to being part of the change that we need, especially, I’m excited to work in the Social Inclusion Project to lift and develop a healthy relationship between all of us. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Social Inclusion
Our project consists in raising awareness in our society towards people with different disabilities through campaigns on several social media platforms, conferences, activities and workshops. All these activities will be made in public spaces where the community can participate and experience first hand what it is like to live in the shoes of people with disabilities. Because we are focusing on the Sustainable Development Goal number 10: Reducing inequalities we believe that the previous propositions of activities will result on creating empathy and awareness in the community towards people with this conditions. At the end of the month of events we will challenge a local business to make their establishment more inclusive like having employees with disabilities, having the menu in braille or having accessible entrances.
About the Millennium Fellow
Carolina Barrera Silva is a junior at Cetys University Ensenada Campus, studying a bachelor degree in engineering of Renewable Energies. Currently, Carolina is the coordinator of projects at FORTES Liderazgo of UN Aspire: her objective in the group is to plan and develop projects that support the SDGs. In addition, she is the fellow in the department of Institutional Relations of Cetys University, in which she helps with the logistics and daily activities. Furthermore, Carolina is the Vicepresident of the Engineering Student Council of Cetys Ensenada, the council has the purpose of being the representative of students to academic concerns.
