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 LENA NAIM IBISHI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Central European University | Vienna, Austria | Advancing SDG 10, SDG 16, SDG 17 & UNAI 8
" I’m interested in political systems because someone clearly has to be. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: From Wars to Weddings: A Sociohistorical Study of Turbofolk
From Wars to Weddings is a sociohistorical research series of turbofolk as a post-Yugoslav cultural archive. Combining oral history, lyrical analysis, and political sociology, the project examines how popular music encoded collective memory, social transition, and identity formation across the region.
About the Millennium Fellow
Lena Ibishi is an aspiring diplomat and historian from Kosovo pursuing a Master of Advanced International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna, the world’s oldest school of diplomacy. She is the first full-time student from Kosovo admitted to the Academy. Her background includes diplomatic work at the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Vienna and parliamentary experience at the Austrian Parliament. Ibishi is also a published author and research co-author in medical academia, with work indexed through international scientific publications. Her intellectual interests span diplomacy, formal logic, ontological modeling, and state formation.
