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 DIVYA GUPTA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras | Chennai, India | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" "Entrepreneurship: a perfect blend of innovation, adaptability, creativity, and problem-solving drives my work and vision. The Millennium Fellowship will enable me to enhance these skills through collaboration, networking, and learning from peers across diverse countries. The knowledge and connections I gain will make my social impact on mental health more tangible and better aligned with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I am excited to envision new, creative approaches to addressing the stigma around mental health and well-being, while strengthening my ability to lead initiatives that create lasting change." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project MANAS
Project MANAS is a student-led mental well-being initiative at IIT Madras designed to address the rising mental health challenges across academic environments. Initiated in August 2025, the project builds a campus-wide culture of empathy, resilience, and early help-seeking through interactive workshops, peer-support systems, awareness campaigns, and creative therapeutic interventions.
About the Millennium Fellow
Divya Gupta is a bright, young, and globally competitive pre-final year student at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, pursuing a Bachelor’s of Technology in Engineering Design and a Master’s of Technology in Computational Engineering. Raised in Chennai, she is passionate about leveraging technology to address societal challenges. In her leadership role at the Entrepreneurship-Cell IIT Madras, she has spearheaded founder upskilling programs and orchestrated investment connects, strengthening the campus startup ecosystem. With national-level competition wins and a proven ability to merge technical innovation with entrepreneurial vision, complemented by experience working with startups and investors across multiple industries, Divya aspires to be in a professional field where she can cultivate these advocacies further and contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through impactful, scalable solutions.
