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 SARAH ELIZABETH YEE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Harvard University | Massachusetts, United States | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" I'm passionate about increasing accessibility in two key areas: movement and information. I believe that an informed mind and a free body are essential to improving healthcare and empowering every individual to pursue their dreams without barriers. I envision this to be designing technologies and creative interventions that make movement more inclusive and health information more understandable—especially for historically underrepresented communities. As a Millennium Fellow, I'm grateful for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build the skills to sustainably execute social impact initiatives that bridge STEM and the arts alongside my incredible peers on campus and across the global Millennium Fellow network. In the spirit of the Fellowship, I also hope to give back to my community and help open this opportunity to others. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: On Display Harvard
"On Display" is an internationally held movement dance-art installation raising awareness for United Nation's annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 3rd. Created through the vision of choreographer Heidi Latsky, "On Display" at Harvard features 20-30 diverse community dancer/performers. Each dancer/performer will have the opportunity to wear a flexible, art piece made out of sustainable, "found" materials. As a former exhibit dancer, I am grateful for the opportunity to spearhead the design of these wearables. I aspire to work in tandem with the original choreographer and other campus and community art groups and leaders ideating, creating and ultimately educating the Harvard and greater community about how society discusses body image and movement capacity. The wearables will be created by the end of October to allow performers and designers to collaboratively work together to assure comfort throughout November. Harvard's "On Display" is open to the public on Dec. 3rd.
About the Millennium Fellow
Sarah Yee is a sophomore at Harvard University studying mechanical engineering and art, film, and visual studies. She is passionate about high fashion, human factors engineering, technical design, biomedical devices and public health policy. Through dance, design, journalism, and theater, Sarah leads interdisciplinary advocacy projects that bridge disciplines and connect communities across generational and language barriers. In everything that she does, Sarah aspires to expand access to movement, health information, and research—especially for historically underrepresented communities.
