ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2020
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In the three months the application was open in 2020, 15,159 young leaders applied to join the Class of 2020 on 1,458 campuses across 135 nations. 80 campuses worldwide (just 6%) were selected to host the 1,000+ Millennium Fellows. The Class of 2020 is bold, innovative, and inclusive.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT NANCY NJERI MURIITHI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
Kenyatta University | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" It is an honour that I have been selected to be a Millennium Fellow this year.I am so excited to be part of the Millennium Fellowship because I will get to network with a diverse group of people from all over the world,be trained and as a result i will make my society a better place.As a student leader for tech communities,there is always a need for training and diversity.I am a firm believer that we carry within us all the mystical power we need to transform the world:with alittle guidance and mentorship we can make ourselves better hence make the world a better place altogether.I made it my mission to always bring the best out of people.I will quote Mahatma Gahndi when he said The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.As a Millennium Fellow, I will be trained and I can deploy the same skills am taught and also I will get to learn from other student leaders from all over the world which is something am really looking forward to.I have made a commitment to ensure that education is available for all and also there is gender equality. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: WOMEN IN STEM EMPOWERMENT
This project is an initiative to mentor students and society as a whole to advocate for gender equality and that technology is used to improve industry,innovation and infrastructure. In a recent research,men take up around 72% of technology roles whereas women take up only 28%.This is because women are discouraged and not given enough voice to engage in STEM careers.Diversity is critical in tech as it enables creation of better and safer products that take everyone into consideration.Diversity will promote creativity,better performance hence innovations and industry will grow as technology grows by the day.In the August-December period, Nancy plans to empower more women to take up STEM roles through mentorship and tech bootcamps for them to upskill. She will evaluate impact using surveys. The Fellow wants to impact 400 plus female students through the project.
About the Millennium Fellow
Nancy Njeri Muriithi is a tech mentor very passionate about making the world a better place using technology.She mentors and guides learners new in technology and ensures technology is evolved in a much stronger direction.Her passion is to advance UN goals both on campus and society.She is full of empathy and humility and always strives to bring out the best in others.Through leading a number of tech communities both in her campus and society,she has impacted so many lives."The time to make the world a better place is now"she says
