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 DEVIKA MENON, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Christ (Deemed to be University) Bannerghatta Campus | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 10 & UNAI 3

" “Education is a powerful tool that many communities have long been denied access to. I strongly believe that education holds the immense power to drive global transformation, provided we dismantle the years of epistemic violence embedded within our systems of learning.” "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Aiding Foundational Literacy through Multilingual Learning
The bustling localities of Bengaluru acts as a host for many migrant labourers from across the country. In most migrant families, second generation members have limited interactions in their mother tongue, restricted to the familial domain. As most schools continue to significantly rely on dominant and global languages, like English as a medium of instruction, students continue to face challenges pertaining to comprehension. To address this, the government through the National Education Policy (NEP) prioritised teaching in mother tongue. However, apart from the stalled implementation, concerns regarding mother tongue-based education for migrants remain unanswered. Thus, the Mother Tongue for Education Project focuses on economically deprived second-generation migrant students of Bengaluru, who speak their native language only in their familial domains. This Project aims to: - Destigmatize and promote an interest in the mother tongue - Cultivate an environment that facilitates learning beyond the constraints of the dominant languages - Transform students into lifelong learners by utilising mother tongue for education-
About the Millennium Fellow
Devika Menon is an undergraduate student in India, pursuing her education in English and Cultural Studies. Having grown up in different parts of the country, she values her diasporic identity as a means to learn and connect with different cultures. She is deeply intrigued by linguistics and has been working on a language documentation project in her native state. Additionally, she is committed to working on educational equality, spending her time helping primary school students in their language education and working with organisations that strive to make education equitable and inclusive, especially in a linguistically diverse country like India.











