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 ANISHA B TEHIM, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Cornell University | New York, United States | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 5 & UNAI 8
" "Working with Girls Who Code at Cornell has shown me how much impact you can have when you create spaces where girls feel comfortable exploring tech. Many of these students come from backgrounds where they've never seen themselves represented in STEM, but once they're in a supportive environment, they thrive. The Millennium Fellowship will help me attain the resources and guidance necessary to extend this work to broader communities where these opportunities are needed most." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: STEM Without Barriers
This project aims to empower young girls from diverse backgrounds by providing an inclusive, supportive environment to learn computer science through the Girls Who Code program at Cornell’s Women in Computing Club. We offer hands-on coding sessions that emphasize collaboration, creativity, and real-world problem-solving. By fostering mentorship and representation, the program helps girls build confidence and see themselves as future leaders in STEM. Focused on early exposure and community-building, this initiative addresses gender gaps in technology and works to create a more diverse and innovative STEM pipeline for the future.
About the Millennium Fellow
Anisha Tehim is an undergraduate student at Cornell University majoring in Biometry & Statistics with a minor in Computer Science. Her passion for promoting women in STEM began in high school when she witnessed firsthand the gender gap in her programming class and spearheaded the first Girls Who Code club for middle school girls in her community. At Cornell, she serves on the Executive Board of Women in Computing and co-leads the Girls Who Code club, working with elementary and middle school girls from diverse backgrounds to build confidence in computer science and create inclusive learning environments. She also maintains research interests in computational biology, particularly in precision medicine and cancer genomics, and plans to pursue a PhD in the field.
