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 ALLISON KIM, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of California Berkeley | California, United States | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" I believe this Millennium Fellowship is an invaluable experience where I can collaborate with and learn alongside a group of diverse, motivated individuals to make a positive social impact in accordance with the UN Academic Impact Principles and Sustainable Development Goals. I look forward to playing an active role in advocating for gender equality in the STEM field, and I am excited to be part of a team that may be a catalyst for such tangible change. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Sight for Students
Every child deserves the right to see properly, but the added expense of prescription glasses can be strenuous on low-income families already struggling between rent payments, food and gas prices, and medical bills, all of which were increased by the pandemic. A lack of corrective glasses has been directly proven to cause deficits in student performance, and the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) at Berkeley thus aims to provide elementary school children experiencing financial hardship with donated glasses to ensure reduced vision does not hold them back from achieving their full academic potential. We further hope to increase awareness of community medical and general resources available to those who may be unemployed or undocumented and in need of assistance by distributing flyers to families. We thus conducted a fundraiser to ensure the youngest members of our communities are receiving the annual physicals, dental cleanings, and corrective glasses they need to become thriving leaders someday.
About the Millennium Fellow
Allison Kim is a junior at the University of California, Berkeley studying Molecular and Cell Biology. She is a member of the American Medical Women’s Association at Berkeley’s Cancer and Womxn’s Health Committee in hopes to encourage equity in her community with her ardor in advocating for women's empowerment. Allison aspires to pursue a career in the medical field where she can help cancer patients and continue to advocate, learn, and raise awareness among underserved communities.