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 YESUIDARI AMARBAYASGALAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Duke University | North Carolina, United States | Advancing SDG 13, SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" Yesuidari Amarbayasgalan is a junior studying Environmental Science at Duke University and Duke Kunshan University. Born in Mongolia, she developed a deep interest in sustainable living through her connection to the nomadic lifestyle. She is particularly passionate about desertification, land health, and the preservation of green spaces. Currently, she is interning at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and serves as an assistant at the Gobi Khulan Conservation project. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Green Steppe Project
This project seeks to restore increasingly degraded land in Mongolia through revegetation and native planting efforts. The project is implemented under the NGO, 'Rich Nature, Our Dream', which I founded in August 2025 following my acceptance into the Millennium Fellowship program. We began with a pilot tree-planting project in Nalaikh Province, near Ulaanbaatar, where our team of five planted 250 elm and fir trees over three days. This marks the beginning of our long-term vision to apply the straw checkerboard method, a proven sand fixation technique, in the desertified Gobi region, followed by the revegetation of the area with native species.
About the Millennium Fellow
Yesuidari Amarbayasgalan is a junior studying Environmental Science at Duke University and Duke Kunshan University. Born in Mongolia, she developed a deep interest in sustainable living through her connection to the nomadic lifestyle. She is particularly passionate about desertification, land health, and the preservation of green spaces. Currently, she is interning at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and serves as an assistant at the Gobi Khulan Conservation project.
