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 IAN SHIMBA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Pace University Pleasantville | Pleasantville, United States | Advancing SDG 6 & UNAI 6, UNAI 9
" The Millennium Fellowship is like a launch pad for my lifelong social impact journey. My work with Right to Know H2O ’24 has brought to light many obstacles we face in securing access to clean water worldwide. The skills, mindsets, relationships, and confidence this fellowship would bring me would be very valuable as I continue striving to advance human rights to clean water and information on its quality so it excites me greatly to become a Millennium Fellow. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Right-to-Know H2O '24
All of the Right-to-Know H2O ’24 team members are applying for Millennium Fellowships with this agreed upon mission: to build on the work of the 2023 Right-to-Know H2O team, but with the objective of instilling in colleges and universities the same fundamental principle implied in SDG 6 – the right to safe drinking water requires the right-to-know water is safe, including on our campuses. The world’s 25,000-plus higher education institutions have an estimated 270 million water
consumers. The combined population of these students, faculty and staff would place it fourth among the world’s most populous nations. Our goal is to leverage technology to create a model that other campuses can emulate. We launched a Pace Pleasantville campus awareness campaign, namely by planning a water quality summit with local officials and dispersing a campus water quality survey. Through theMillennium Fellowship network, we will then provide other campuses with tools to institute similar practices.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ian Shimba is a dedicated student at Pace University committed to his studies of Computer Science. He's deeply passionate about environmental advocacy and is driven by a strong belief in the right for everyone to know what is in their water, working to raise awareness about water quality issues. Ian is determined to pursue a career that can contribute to environmental issues like right to know, to solve this issue and ensure safe, clean water for all. His dedication to both his education and his cause reflects a commitment to making a lasting impact.
