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 AKANKSHA SURESHWARA RAJU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Christ (Deemed To Be University) Kengeri Campus | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" Compassion and empathy drive my work ethic and add to my growth and development. I strongly believe in the importance of education and awareness and how knowledge and information drives us to become better individuals. I believe that the skills I gain as a Millennium Fellow will aid me in achieving my goals that are aligned with the SDGs that have been set by the UN" "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Youth Education Collective
An integrated, student-led initiative aligned with SDG 4, designed to supplement formal education. The Collective empowers youth by delivering essential knowledge in three core areas: Holistic Wellbeing (mental health, sex ed, financial literacy), Digital Empowerment (tech skills and safety), and Peer-to-Peer Skills (practical talents shared by students), using a hybrid model of workshops, online resources, and peer mentorship.
*Objectives*:
1. Skill Swap Initiative: Organize one peer-to-peer Skill Swap event per semester, where students teach each other practical and creative skills in a fair-like or session format, ensuring active participation and community-building.
2. Digital Empowerment Toolkit: Develop and share a starter digital resource kit (PDF/website) with guides on digital literacy, online safety, scholarships, and productivity tools. Make it accessible to at least 200+ students online/offline.
3. Organize 1-3 collaborative campus events focused on holistic wellbeing, such as stress management, financial literacy, sex education, and consent, to provide students with practical knowledge and safe spaces for dialogue.
About the Millennium Fellow
Akanksha is a kind, compassionate psychology student at Christ University in Bangalore, India. Akanksha is passionate about spreading awareness about mental health and sex education, feminism and believes in making an impact on the world around us and finding it a little better than the way we found it. Through her experiences she found how lack of information surrounding important topics can leave us misinformed and aims to spread awareness about sex education and mental health through her project. She aspires to establish a career as a psychologist or work in public health and hopes to leave a positive impact on the people she meets and helps in her life.
