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 PUHIZA SHEMSEDINI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Central European University | Vienna, Austria | Advancing SDG 5, SDG 4, SDG 3, SDG 10, SDG 16, SDG 17 & UNAI 5, UNAI 6

" There are so many unheard voices and silenced stories that I am aiming to give voice to. I want to bring light to the intersectionality of the issues that we are facing, and proof that not everyone has the same challenges, or needs to reach equality. The Millennium Fellowship will give me the right tools I need on how to mobilise marginalised communities, like girls with low social income, children with disabilities, etc. I am looking forward to open discussions with other fellows and widening my thinking horizon! "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Exploring Gender, Social Justice, and Feminism
Our project aimed to look at gender issues through an intersectional approach. We see this as super important because generalisation and speaking of universal feminism movements are not quite accurate. Therefore, we brought light to other stories, such as Arab feminism, by watching a documentary followed by a discussion. Moreover, we wanted our project to touch on grass-root issues, and we cooperated with an NGO in Vienna who was willing to offer a workshop regarding sexual violence, toxic relationships, and how we as citizens can prevent femicide. Last but not least, we also had a discussion with the Gender Officer in CEU, who talked about institutional mechanisms to address harassment and specifically sexual harassment.
About the Millennium Fellow
Puhiza Shemsedini is a young but truly brave advocate for human rights. She is born and raised in Kosovo, she is an alumni of the U.S. department scholarship where she had the chance to do an exchange year in the United States and currently she is studying Culture, Politics, and Society at Central European University in Vienna. She has been the voice of children in Kosovo for years, she organised campaigns to raise awareness, protests against sexual violence and actively monitored the work of the institutions; she even had a meeting with the President of Kosovo! Activists like her that are solution-oriented are an important asset for the fellowship!


