ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT EVA TULLY-GILES, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Brandeis University | Massachusetts, United States | Advancing SDG 10 & UNAI 8
" The educational and wealth disparities I have personally seen in my hometown pushed me to pursue the Millennium Fellowship. I strongly believe that everyone should be able to have ready access to the education and materials they need to pursue their goals. Everyone should be able to inform themselves such that they come to their own conclusions about the world around them and help ignite progress. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Right to Remain Mobile
Our objective is to help Brandeis students, faculty, and staff with disabilities or conditions that affect their mobility access to any area on campus, they must be able to. This project focuses on increasing mobile accessibility on campus by advocating for the improvement of infrastructure essential for mobility, such as automatic doors, elevators, lifts, ramps, and crosswalks. To ensure that Waltham residents also reap these benefits, we will reach out to city legislators to make a positive difference in the lives of pedestrians and people with disabilities. Furthermore, we wish to launch an educational campaign to increase public awareness of the challenges faced by members of the disabled community on and around campus.
About the Millennium Fellow
Eva Tully-Giles is a junior at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, studying biological physics. Eva is passionate about making research and educational resources accessible to everyone through both researching educational disparities and via policy change within educational systems. From rural Ojai, CA, she has both personally experienced and has been on the other side of these systemic disparities seen within education systems throughout the country. Through her project, she hopes to increase accessibility of her university, both in the physical sense and in the educational sense. After she graduates, Eva plans to go to graduate school to pursue a Master's degree in biological physics, afterward she will go on to earn either an MD-PhD or a PhD in biophysics.
