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 ADAM BADR, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Central European University | Vienna, Austria | Advancing SDG 16, SDG 17 & UNAI 2
" Behind any one person's aspirations is a network of people supporting and reassuring them throughout their journey to achieving their goals. In true Millennium Fellow fashion, I hope to not only further my social justice project aims, but also collaborate and help my fellow peers to progress theirs. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Ranked-Choice Voting North Jersey
The Ranked-Choice Voting North Jersey Initiative is all about improving how local elections work in North Jersey. It started with a simple idea: if people don’t trust their government or feel like their vote matters, something has to change. Right now, the first-past-the-post system used in our municipal elections fuels polarization, limits fresh ideas in policymaking, and drives more and more voters toward third-party registration—clear signs of frustration with the status quo.
We believe ranked-choice voting (RCV) is the way forward. It’s a system that encourages collaboration, reduces partisanship, and makes elections more representative. Through outreach and advocacy, we’re working to spark conversations and build momentum for electoral reform in North Jersey, because we know change starts locally.
About the Millennium Fellow
Adam Benko Badr is a Philosophy, Politics, and Economics student at the Central European University. He was born in the United States of America in the great state of New Jersey to a Hungarian mother and Egyptian father. His inspiration to pursue a career in public service stems from his parents’ line of work, both public school mathematics teachers committed to the improvement of public education in the US. Adam’s math-oriented upbringing and motivation to work for the public sector led him to a major in economics, where he saw an opportunity to apply his quantitative expertise to aid public policy efficacy and improve governance in the United States.
