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 ALLISON CHRISTEN STRAUSS, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
Stony Brook University | New York, United States | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 6
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow to have the opportunity to work and learn from a great community of leaders and to improve my leadership skills. Before you can understand someone’s side you need to understand where they’re coming from to fix the problems in society. Everyone has a voice, I believe that we need to learn how to use our voices to make a difference in society. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Using Your Voice
Using Your Voice provides the opportunity for all gender identities to discuss and learn from each other struggles. This will create a dialogue of discussion that will allow them to change. The discussion and talks will allow all the members to discuss how they feel about the topic at hand. Conversation allows people to learn and realize that gender inequality affects those they know and meet compare just knowing the stats. The only way to understand each other and learn the everyday life on each other is to discuss in a safe and inclusive place. This semester the team hopes to create different discussion groups about the issues of gender equality. The team will create questions and discussion points to talk about each discussion group.
About the Millennium Fellow
Allison Strauss is a sophomore at Stony Brook University studying both political science and sociology. She currently an intern at the Center for Civic Justice at Stony Brook University. As an intern she helps provides services, support, and coordination for programs and opportunities that cultivate, develop and empower active and engaged students to positively contribute to the betterment of their communities through awareness, advocacy, and action. Allison is also a member of Sigma Beta Honor society at her university. She is passionate about making a difference and helping others find their voice and make a difference in society.
