ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ANVIKSHA PRADHAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Ashoka University | Sonipat, India | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 2
" For women in society, access to quality education is a matter of privilege instead and various socio-cultural and systemic barriers structurally alienate women from receiving quality education. For me, my privilege makes it my responsibility to exert myself in making quality education accessible for to women. It is a matter of up lifting and empowering rural women communities by adapting my knowledge to create benefits that go beyond my own life. The training provided under the Millennium will act as a conduit to communicate and share with the community.
I am sure it would offer me an opportunity to work with a diverse group of driven, young people passionate about making a difference. Learning in a global and diverse community like that provided by the UN Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network will foster the ethic of global citizenship encouraging a sense of being a culturally sensitive agent of development. I see a significant scope for mutual learning in terms of transforming how one envisions one’s own potential in impacting change through others’ experiences. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project Blue Deeper than Indigo
The project aims at the development and promotion of women who are small business holders, primarily rural artisans, by helping them acquire new and advanced skills through additional training and education at a local level.
About the Millennium Fellow
Anviksha Pradhan is a third-year Economics undergraduate student at Ashoka University. She has worked on various research projects including those centring around the issue of women’s labour force participation in India and its determinants, the supportive roles played by schools in ensuring teen mental well-being, and the experiences of Indian maize farmers with online learning, among others. Research interests are focused on behavioural economics, international trade, economics of gender and discrimination, and sustainability.
She has previously interned with Bakul, Bhubaneshwar, the Akanksha Foundation, New Delhi and Palna Delhi Council for Child Welfare, New Delhi, working and engaging with youth to promote education.
Coming from a family of academicians she got interested in research-based practice early-on in life. The UN Millennium Fellowship will give her an opportunity to contribute to the idea of advancing forward together, as a community, and creating value within society through her own efforts by engaging in dialogues, and designing programs. It will enable me to translate evidence-based research into evidence-based practice.
