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 HANNA PARTOVI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Columbia University | New York, United States | Advancing SDG 16 & UNAI 6
" A growth mindset and expanding our models of thinking beyond traditional modes of operation underpin my social justice advocacy and related activism. Collaboration with my Millennium Fellows and the networks I expect to build through the program will enable me to gain more insight into a broad array of viewpoints and therefore enhance my strategic thinking and global envisioning skills. This collaboration in turn better aligns the impact and narrative change I pursue through my social justice activism with UNAI principles and SDGs, altogether making me a more effective global citizen. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Youth Courts For Youth Justice
Youth Courts are alternatives to the juvenile justice system to support youth charged with an offense to utilize a different option than the traditional sentencing procedures of juvenile court. With this option young offenders agree to a restorative (not punitive) decision by a jury of their peers.
My project promotes the expansion of Youth Courts in New York. It does so by providing training and informational content that entice and enable creation of Youth Courts in selected districts in New York and therefore save young offenders from the unforgiving consequences of entering the juvenile justice system.
About the Millennium Fellow
Hanna Partovi is a sophomore at Columbia University studying philosophy and French Literature. A San Francisco native and passionate about social justice for underrepresented youth, Hanna is a criminal justice reform activist. To that end, she has served as youth advocate and elected board member of the California Association of Youth Courts, aiming to curb punitive school policies that criminalize students and fuel the “school-to-prison” pipeline.
Hanna is a member of the Columbia Policy Institute and Pre-law Society and has written for the Columbia Policy Journal. She currently volunteers with the Ark Immigration Clinic, assisting asylum-seekers with their citizenship applications.
