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 TANIA SOFÍA MACÍAS UGALDE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
IE University | Madrid, Spain | Advancing SDG 12, SDG 2, SDG 12 & UNAI 9

" I am very excited to be a Millennium Fellow because I truly believe that together with other members, we can make a big impact on our community. This is the perfect example of people with similar ideas to mine to come together and develop something truly wonderful that can truly become something that begins a chain of positve change. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Greenshift
Veganism and sustainability is only the last of many social impact projects we have learned to deeply care about as it unites many of our other interests such as feminism, equality and healthy living. Being part of a generation that is slowly seeing our world fall apart; being active and creating meaningful impact within our community is the way to keep hope up.
Environmentalism often seems to be something that we can put off for just a little longer, but to us it is the most important conversation to have in this century.
We explore why and how meat is culturally and personally important to us and what we can change in order to live more sustainably.
We are working on offering on-campus courses and organizing a research project through online courses and social media campaigns and student ambassadors.
We wish to create a more appealing approach to shifting towards a plant based diet while proving its viability.
We aim to track the reach of our social media campaigns, including metrics such as impressions and reach, follower growth, interested persons from outside the direct community of IE University and click- through as well as conversion rate with our posts.
In coordination with cafeterias and the sustainability town hall we will be able to survey behavioral changes in food consumption during the project and thus directly evaluate a (changing) attitude towards plant based diets among students.
connect with similar and corresponding projects all over Spain with the goal of uniting the promotion of sustainable diets,
provide nudges for visitors to adapt their diet preferences by showing them quantitative and personalized data such as carbon footprint or water use saved by their personal adjustments.
Knowing that our university is one of the first “carbon neutral” universities in Europe and ranked #1 in the world for ESG and NET ZERO training by the Financial Times, we consciously chose it to develop further sustainability projects. Under the Head of Sustainability and member of the university’s founding family, Isabella de Alcazar, IE provides sustainability ventures with institutional expertise and an extensive network of partners and mentors, which we weighed heavily in our decision
About the Millennium Fellow
Tania Sofía Macías Ugalde is an enthusiastic and dedicated behavioral science student at IE University. She was born in Mexico and resides in Madrid, where she has many great friends and colleagues from all across the globe. Tania has always had a passion for sustainable projects as well as fashion and ethical consumption, as well as those related to women´s, POC´s and immigrants rights. Due to these interests and passions, Tania has been a very dedicated member of the UN Debate Club at her university, engaging in fruitful discussions and developing potential solutions for worldwide issues. Tania aspires to be in a professional field where she can promote ethical fashion practices and justice for marginalized groups, and to help achieve the development and growth of the UN Sustainable Goals in the best way she can.





