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 XUNMEI ZHENG, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Stanford University | California, United States | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 5 & UNAI 3

" Through the Millennium Fellowship, my social impact will be taken to the next level as I am immersed in an environment full of like-minded peers from various diverse backgrounds. I am excited to be included in this space to continue to give back through social work and develop meaningful connections with those in my cohort and beyond. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Social Play(AI)ground
Following a collaborative partnership with the Costa Rican NGO Soy Niña through the Stanford Design for Extreme Affordability Program, I, along with my team (of the Stanford program, not affiliated with the Millennium Fellowship) designed a “Big Sister Mentorship Program” to help the vulnerable young adolescent girls there to gain access to coaching, mentorship, and personalized support. From discussing with stakeholders, I was also informed of how many of the girls lacked confidence and were seeking informal ways to build skills in socio-emotional learning and mindfulness to alleviate their stress. Inspired, in this initiative, I am creating a series of storybooks that involve fun and creative narratives that also contains messages promoting socioemotional learning. This project will help the young children around the world to gain socioemotional skills that will benefit them for a lifetime. I also hope to use this framework and extend it to the next branch of this project, which is creating an AI tool that helps facilitate and support interactions promoting socioemotional learning with the AI through drama games, ActiMate.
About the Millennium Fellow
Marielle is deeply interested in providing global education rights for all. Too often, in this rapidly evolving world, she finds that many people are constrained by borders— be it social, cultural, economic, political, or geographical— and are thus deemed by others as not worthy of receiving a quality education. As Nelson Mandela famously stated, ‘education is the most powerful weapon one can use to change the world.’ Therefore, as a first generation immigrant, Marielle has dedicated herself to to understanding the significance of the global distribution of quality education by immersing herself in various education systems around the world, from China, Australia, France, UK, and the US. With the ultimate aspiration of becoming an education rights advocate to help immigrant children gain access to quality education, Marielle will take her next step towards bringing quality education to the disadvantaged through this fellowship.








