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 ZAINAB HAMMED OPEYEMI , A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Bayero University New Site | Kano, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 5 & UNAI 3
" Advocacy, creative thinking, leadership professionalism, and beautiful passion for making meaningful impact. Being part of Millennium Fellowship will enhance these skills and passions beautifully and collaboratively. The skills I gained from the Millennium Fellowship will make my social impact in the community to be more tangible and aligned with the UNAI principles and the SDGs. I am excited to be part of this Meaningful Fellowship. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Peace Wave: One Voice Many Ripple
🌊 PEACE WAVES is simply the next step of what I started with Campus Peace Ambassadors. It’s my way of taking those small acts of kindness, respect, and understanding we preach on campus and letting them ripple beyond us.
It’s about showing that peace doesn’t need to be loud or complicated. One honest conversation, one gentle choice, one person choosing calm over conflict… that’s a wave. And together, those waves can change our spaces in ways we don’t always see, but always feel.
That’s what PEACE WAVES means to me: small actions, big ripples. And I’m grateful to be continuing this journey with others who believe the same.
About the Millennium Fellow
Zainab is a change maker, a bright, young, competitive law student at Bayero University Kano, born in Nigeria, where she lives her whole 22 years. Zainab has always been passionate about her advocacies for social impact, gender equality, peace building, and quality education. This motivation and drive translated itself from Zainab's experience in various internships, fellowships and projects she has participated in, and also her continuous dedication to social action and impact. In her stay in the university, she has successfully organized and also Co-organized several projects relating to her passion and field of interest, among us the recently concluded project CAMPUS PEACE AMBASSADORS; An initiative created to promote peaceful engagement on campus. Zainab's aspires to be in a professional field where she can cultivate these advocacies further, and also strive hard to provide her own contribution in the development of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
