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 MASON JAMES HAGEN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Northeastern University | Massachusetts, United States | Advancing SDG 15, SDG 12 & UNAI 9

" "My passion for sustainability has been fostered by the privileged of having clean air, water, and green spaces. Once innate to enjoy, these are becoming scarce, and my mission is to preserve quality of life for current and future generations." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Trash BeGone
I hope to coordinate a trash collection initiative to clean up the Boston area and its green spaces. I've noticed a fair amount of waste in parks, sidewalks, waterways, and city streets throughout the community. It's disheartening to see this garbage marring the city and I would love to combat this issue. In my social circles I know a lot of environmentally motivated people. I have a leadership role in the Botanical Society and am friends with the leaders of many other sustainability/environmentally focused student organizations. In all, these groups have at least 100 regular members who I am certain would love to help out with this initiative. Once per week I hope to take crews of volunteers to sites needing trash collection. Coordinating with local authorities and from observation, these sites could be determined based on scale of garbage presence. I'm really excited about the prospect of cleaning up the city and advancing sustainability. Through this project I hope to foster a wider community of environmentally motivated students that transcends smaller groups/clubs to reach this common goal.
About the Millennium Fellow
Mason Hagen is a curious, motivated, and creative student at Northeastern University. He is originally from the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has been pursuing higher education in Boston since 2023. He is studying Environmental and Sustainability Sciences and seeks to apply his degree to advancing environmental and social causes. Since first imagining, "What do you want to be when you grow up?", he has always been inclined to serve others and make the world a better, more sustainable place for all. He looks forward to making an impact as a Class of 2025 Millennium Fellow!












