ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT KASSIDI CHANICE THOMPSON, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Bentley University | Massachusetts, United States | Advancing SDG 12, SDG 11, SDG 17, SDG 8 & UNAI 4, UNAI 6
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because I'm eager to begin learning how to turn ideas for social justice into real change! "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Business for a Better Waltham
The students at Bentley University, supported by the Bentley Service-Learning
and Civic Engagement Center, learn that business can drive positive change.
Through this project, we aim to accelerate this process in our home city of
Waltham, Massachusetts.
Through this project, we will conduct research and engage with community
leaders to create a number of resource guides. We will create a guide to equip
Waltham businesses to advance social good (including, but not necessarily
limited to: effective community partnerships, ethical supply chain practices, and
sustainability) through their business practices. We will make a guide for
Waltham consumers that highlights businesses advancing social good, with
categories and indications of the social good that the organizations are
advancing. We will create a document that details business opportunities for
organizations advancing progress toward Sustainable Development Goals.
Lastly, working with civic leaders and business leaders in the city, and drawing
from accessible data, we will develop a resource that will serve as an overview
of community needs in Waltham.
About the Millennium Fellow
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Kassidi Thompson is akin to fast paces, goal-setting, and finding harmony amidst chaos to problem solve. For navigating the city’s elaborate public school system, these skills have been essential. Now having graduated from the nation’s first and top public school, Boston Latin School, she seeks to earn a degree in Economics-Finance & Public Policy at Bentley University to soon attend law school. She is passionate about all things to do with education, public service, research, and the intersections between economics and law. Yet, most of all, she is dedicated to being an active member of whatever community she is a part of. On campus, she serves as an executive board member of the cultural organization, Black United Body, and academic organization, Adamian Law Club. She also is a Program Manager at the BSLCE and this August, will begin her roles as a Peer Leader and Resident Assistant. Kassidi understands that community engagement is the foundation to building the skills necessary to help make the world a better place. The Millennium Fellowship is one of the many ways she is working towards building that foundation.
