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 AKSHARA N NAMBIAR, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
National University of Study and Research in Law | Ranchi, India | Advancing SDG 5, SDG 8 & UNAI 6
" I am very passionate about queer rights and making law accessible to everyone. I believe that there is so much strength and brilliance in queer communities, and with the right support, spaces, and advocacy, people can live and love more freely than the world often allows. I am where I am because others chose to stand up for equality and dignity; I want to be that person who stands beside others, ensuring that justice is not distant, but something they can truly claim as their own. That is why I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: DAYAN
Project DAYAN is an initiative to help the survivors of witch-hunting in Jharkhand. This practice is a result of the toxic concoction of outdated beliefs in the supernatural and a desire to suppress women. When a woman is declared to be a witch she is faced with humiliation and public ridicule, in some extreme cases they may also be subjected to a total cutoff from the village ecosystem. With the strict laws now on the prevention of this "witch-hunting" practice the woman have been pushed out of their homes with no place to go and no way to earn leading to unemployment and being taken into rehabs or mental health institutions to live with the help of NGOs. The project aims to address this by emphasizing the need for these women to be equipped with the employment skills to live with their held high. We will also spread awareness against this evil practice and advocate for stronger enforcement of the laws preventing this practice. Through direct intervention and advocacy, we seek to address the immediate and long-term effects of witch-hunting, working towards positive solutions that uplift these survivors and pave way for a brighter and better future for these women.
About the Millennium Fellow
Akshara N Nambiar is a driven and passionate law student. She embodies a blend of Delhi’s fast-paced city life and the rich cultural ethos of Kerala, carrying both influences into her work and aspirations. She has long been drawn to questions of social justice and how law can be made accessible to everyone; this has led her to take part in philanthropic efforts and awareness camps. For her, the Millennium Fellowship is an opportunity to bring these threads together; to turn aspirations into action and contribute to real, lasting change.
