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 ENA YAMAGUCHI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Minerva University | San Francisco, United States | Advancing SDG 12, SDG 17 & UNAI 3
" By understanding and incorporating the voice of UNAI and other students that are passionate to achieve their goal in Millennium Fellow, I will be able to enhance my perspective and creativity on how I can pursue sustainability using my own strengths and interests. Because my ultimate goal is to enhance the idea that "environmental and personal well-being are achievable simultaneously", discovering various perspectives of sustainable leaders and understanding how their cultures and strengths are leading them to take actions will be a great knowledge when thinking about the ways I can expand my message to a more diverse audience. I am very excited for the many knowledge and interactions I will be able to gain from this opportunity. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: U-en-Me
This is a continuous project of a sustainable clothing brand I launched 2 years ago. The brand "u-en-me", aims to promote sustainability through well-being and entertainment, by producing products with modern designs using discarded Kimono fabrics, and hosting fashion shows/other music events that combine factors of Japanese culture and sustainability. Through the Millennium Fellowship Project, I will host a in-school event centered around Minerva University's diverse student backgrounds, by showcasing Japanese culture through music and u-en-me's products, as well as other unique cultures/traditions from the students. All donations and entrance fees I collect will be donated to Japanese Culture Heritage Foundation, as well as Login, both striving to preserve Japanese culture and its potential for sustainability. Overall, these projects will foster conversation within young generations of what "sustainability" means, as well as gaining tangible effect by providing financial resources to like minded organizations.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ena Yamaguchi is a student at Minerva University, and an active entrepreneur in the field of culture and fashion. She was raised in Tokyo, until she and her family moved to California where she learned English and the diverse cultures of different countries that play a huge role in achieving sustainability. After coming back to Tokyo, she has been working passionately to spread awareness about the relationship between environmental and individual well-being, focusing on fashion and culture which are one of her most intriguing aspects. She built her own Kimono brand "u-en-me", and is now chasing her dream to spread her voice globally through the unique curriculum and lifestyle Minerva provides.
