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 NADIYAH HELAL, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of California Davis | California, United States | Advancing SDG 12 & UNAI 9
" I'm excited to engage with the Millennium Fellows network to further our collective goals of making the world a more sustainable place. Climate action is a broad, interdisciplinary movement, and we must take every opportunity to learn from each other's perspectives. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Participatory Life Cycle Assessment in Lithium Valley
Lithium is a critical material in electric vehicle batteries, but the broader public good of energy transitions must be balanced with the environmental burdens on material-producing regions. I work with a doctoral student, Margaret Slattery, on her dissertation project “Incorporating stakeholder perspectives in industrial ecology: A justice-oriented analysis of the lithium-ion battery value chain.” The project focuses on a lithium extraction project in the Salton Sea region of southern California, coined “Lithium Valley” for its underlying lithium-rich geothermal brines. The project aims to identify and contextualize local impacts by developing a participatory consequential life cycle assessment model of proposed direct lithium extraction. I am thus constructing a process model to translate to environmental impact categories, which will be selected through community engagement.
About the Millennium Fellow
Nadiyah Helal is a senior studying Civil Engineering at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is passionate about sustainable energy systems and climate change mitigation, including the environmental justice elements of clean energy transitions. Nadiyah has advanced her sustainability knowledge through her work in energy consulting, global affairs, life cycle assessment, and humanitarian projects.
