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 GLADENS OLAMIDE POPOOLA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta | Abeokuta, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 6
" I am someone who has always been interested in community development most especially in the technology industry. As a Millennium Fellow, I know that I will get to learn the required skills to be an active community developer in the technology industry. These skills that I will learn, will then help me to make greater impacts on my campus and in the society at large. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Female Youth Global Empowerment
Female Youth Global Empowerment, FYGE provides both soft and hard skills empowerment to young females in order to make and develop them into change makers in their society.
About the Millennium Fellow
Gladens Popoola is a Computer Science student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. She is hardworking and tenacious. Ever since she got into technology, she has always been interested in involving young females like herself in it. She strongly believes that introducing females into technology at a young age as early as from high school will go a long way to break the gender bias in the technology industry in Nigeria.