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 GABRIELLE CASSELL, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Spelman College | Georgia, United States | Advancing SDG 5, SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" "Culturally competent and empowering education should be a right, not a privilege. As someone who has experienced the transformational power of education, I want to be able to provide that for others in my community. Being a Millennium Fellow will allow me to exercise that desire and learn about the needs of the community that I'm in. I am truly looking forward to how I will shape and be shaped through this process." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Black Feminism 101
Black Feminism 101, is a one-day workshop to introduce young Black women students to Black Feminism as a framework. This aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals of Gender Equality and Quality Education. Unfortunately, the public education system in the United States has abysmal standards for racial and gender education, let alone education at the intersection of the two. This leaves Black children, specifically young Black women, and femmes, without the knowledge of the work of their foremothers and their history. I hope to leave the attendees with a sense of empowerment in their identities as young Black women and femmes and as budding Black feminists, as well as a new framework through which to look at society.
About the Millennium Fellow
Gabrielle Cassell (she/her) is a sophomore Comparative Women’s Studies major with a double minor in Sociology and Religious Studies at the illustrious Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, USA. Gabrielle has decided to dedicate her life to the struggle for global Black liberation, explicitly focusing on the lives of women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals. She hopes to contribute to this through her project, which focuses on introducing Black feminism to Black youth in a relevant way. After graduating, Gabrielle plans to pursue a Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies, with the result of working as a professor and organizer.
