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 NORA SUN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Harvard University | Massachusetts, United States | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" mercuri.world is a collective of activists, researchers, engineers, and creatives based in over a dozen nations dedicated to making mental health resources accessible to everyone. With support from the Millennium Fellowship, we will develop, translate, and curate evidence-based digital mental health resources and disseminate them through our global outreach network. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: mercuri.world
mercuri.world (https://mercuri.world) is a student-led initiative to make mental health resources more accessible to non-English-speaking individuals who face mental health challenges. We are a collective of 196 activists, researchers, translators, and creatives based in over a dozen nations. We develop and curate evidence-based mental health resources in non-English languages and disseminate them through our outreach network. Since I began building this initiative last June, we have identified and curated a database of over 400 mental health resources in over a dozen languages, including screeners, workshops, awareness posters, clinical documents and guides, and videos. Through our chapter system, we have shared these resources through in-person community events. To increase the accessibility of our resources, we have developed digital databases of these resources and will launch a website and app to host these digital resources, a peer support network (Little Talks), and a career mentorship program (CareerQuest). Following the completion of this database of resources, we intend to build new initiatives that aim to tackle social challenges related to mental illness, such as stigma and isolation, through innovative digital storytelling involving poetry, essays, and art.
About the Millennium Fellow
Nora Sun is a junior at Harvard University concentrating in Statistics. She is dedicated to advancing equitable, evidence-based interventions for individuals living with mental health challenges. She is the founder of mercuri.world, a not-for-profit initiative developing digital solutions for global mental well-being, and has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations supported by over $23,000 in research funding. For her leadership in public service and research, she has received the Diana Award and the President’s Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award; she has spoken at the United Nations Science Summit and was recently named to the National Youth250 Bureau.
