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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.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT PRINCESS UGONMA ONYEAMA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.

Columbia University | New York, United States | Advancing SDG 10, SDG 5, SDG 8, SDG 16 & UNAI 6

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" Collaboration and equity are the main things that I believe drive systemic change. I am excited to learn from the other Millennium Fellows and hope to be able to share our ideas to create real change. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Transdisciplinary Applied Research Center

My social impact initiative is a Transdisciplinary Applied Research Center that bridges together scholarly expertise to merge methods, conceptual frameworks and approaches to applied research. We will utilize transdisciplinary applied research using a vertical integration approach. Transdisciplinarity is a collaboration between two or more disciplines with high levels of integration causing the development of new conceptual, theoretical and methodological frameworks. Vertical integration means integration among different types of knowledge users, and includes perspectives from academics, local communities, cultures, and NGO staff.
Informed by survivor and scholar experts: In order for this process to work effectively we need lived experience experts and scholar experts to give feedback at every layer of the process. This is again a non hierarchical board of advisors that gives feedback every step of the way.

About the Millennium Fellow

Ava Kamdem is a student at Columbia University School of General Studies studying psychology, a Social Impact Fellow Alumni with Columbia World Projects, Global Thought Scholar with Columbia Global Thought, and Director of Operations at Justice Ambassadors. Ava is a formerly incarcerated, survivor of human trafficking that has devoted her academics to studying disenfranchised groups to cultivate capital and change narrative. Ava has used her lived experience to advocate for others by assisting federal agents in recovering victims, and consulting with homeland security to have alternatives to incarceration for women engaging in prostitution. Ava publicly shares her story, teaches and consults with NGOs, has created outreach programs and served on the Human Trafficking Survivor Leadership Council of Texas. Ava plans on going onto graduate school to study ways to create organizational economic opportunities for disenfranchised groups.

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