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 ANTARIKHA SANKRITI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Christ (Deemed to be University) Bannerghatta Campus | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 11, SDG 10 & UNAI 9
" Advocacy and adaptability, fuelled by critical thinking and holistic thinking, drive my research and work. Being a part of the Millennium Fellowship will enhance these skills collaboratively. The skills I gain from the Millennium Fellowship will make my social impact on marginalised communities more tangible and aligned with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I am excited to increase my anticipatory competence by envisioning new ways of thinking, learning and creativity. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: ReStory: Reclaiming Narratives
ReStory: Reclaiming Narratives is a project that seeks to give agency to marginal and misrepresented voices by enabling them to tell their stories. Emerging from my research on Mayong, Assam—often stereotyped as “the land of black magic”-the project challenges this kind of reductive portrayals by foregrounding living experiences, memories, and cultural practices in the voices of the community. ReStory facilitates creative workshops in schools, colleges, and local communities wherein young participants and other locals express their narrative through writing, art, and multimedia forms like video and audio. For instance, the kids at the workshop create artwork related to their regions, or showcase their unique culture through storytelling sessions and dance by collaborating with one another. ReStory turns storytelling into a participatory act between generations, preserving intangible heritage while fostering empathy and pride through a cultural identity-reclaiming the power of stories from stereotype toward authenticity.
About the Millennium Fellow
Antarikha Sankriti is a young, passionate and globally competitive English and Cultural Studies student at Christ (Deemed-to-be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bengaluru (of the Humanities and Performing Arts Department). She was born in the northeastern state of Assam, India and has been passionate about global leadership and advocacy from a young age. In fact, her very first ideals passed down to her by her parents and guides was pertaining to giving voice to the subaltern and the silenced, to work for the cause of social justice, indigenous community’s rights and the need to preserve culture and identity in a world which is all-too eager to forget it all. This drive and ardour translated itself from Antarikha’s involvement in community upliftment and her engagement in the field of social justice, literature and critical studies. Throughout her high school years and currently in her college years, she has successfully organised various philanthropic projects and social justice movements, which through her outstanding leadership, she plans to continue in the future. Antarikha aspires to be in the professional field where she can cultivate these advocacies further, and also provide meaningful insights by diving into the academic field to provide her own contributions in the development of the United Nations’ Sustainable Goals. She believes in not just speaking about change but actually doing it as well, and aspires to live by her words.
