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 SARAH V MONTIMAIRE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Pace University Pleasantville | Pleasantville, United States | Advancing SDG 1, SDG 17, SDG 2, SDG 6 & UNAI 1
" Hope and visions of an idealized version of Brooklyn brought comfort to me when I was struggling with my mental health and missing “home”. But it wasn’t the city blocks I was missing, but the community that lived on them. Too many people who look like me and many others I empathize with don’t have a home and sleep on the streets of the city. The people who make the city home are suffering. I want the home I idealized in my head, the one that kept me going, to come back to or into fruition. So, I am going to work to make it happen. Honing my skills as a Millennium Fellow means taking the proper steps. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Nou Tout Se Moun
Nou Tout Se Moun is an initiative working to humanize homelessness among New Yorkers and the New York Administration. The primary objective is to relieve issues beyond houselessness for people experiencing (or who are close to experiencing) homelessness. The goal is not to invoke pity but an understanding in order to reconnect them with the New York community.
The approach is to document the lives and stories of people experiencing homelessness to better understand them as people, understand their needs and wants, and then share that with New York. At the same time, the approach is also to redistribute resources within the community. Clothes already in circulation in the city or that may soon be on the way to land fill, should be repurposed and given a new life to people experiencing homelessness.
About the Millennium Fellow
Sarah V. Montimaire is a pragmatic individual pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Digital Cinema & Filmmaking at Pace University. Though a Brooklyn native, they went to a charter arts high school in Pennsylvania, where they specialized in literary arts for four years. Arts and writing for them grew to be a coping mechanism and a tool to connect with those around them. She was raised family-oriented and taught that if you have to give, then do. She now tries to live with ideologies such as “true success and wealth are ones that can be shared” in mind. With a long history of volunteering, the girl likes to use it to connect with and give back to the communities she feels connected to. Disenfranchised, with an inability to enjoy the luxuries the city has to offer and being respected as citizens of the city, people at risk of and experiencing homelessness deserve all that NYC has to offer them and more. Starting locally in NYC, she aims to provide a platform for homelessness through art. Through that work, she also plans to collect, redistribute, and map out resources such as bathrooms, soup kitchens, and more to share.
