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 MALAIKA KHAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
National University of Sciences & Technology | Islamabad, Pakistan | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 4 & UNAI 3

" This isn't just my story it’s the story of every girl who was told her dreams were too big, and every woman who fought to claim her rightful place. I do this work because when one of us breaks through, we widen the path for countless others to follow. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Nexgen Pathfinders
Nexgen Pathfinders is a youth-led educational and career development initiative operating in Quetta, Balochistan, and Islamabad. The project was established to address the deep-rooted issue of restricted academic and professional pathways, where societal norms often dictate career choices, men are steered toward engineering and women toward medicine leaving little space for personal interest, talent, or exploration. This cultural constraint, combined with the absence of structured career counselling systems, has resulted in students making uninformed decisions that affect their long-term personal and professional growth.
Nexgen Pathfinders seeks to break this cycle by empowering students to discover, pursue, and excel in fields aligned with their aspirations. The initiative provides free career counselling sessions, comprehensive admission guidance, scholarship updates, university application support, and awareness sessions on emerging disciplines and future opportunities. By bridging the knowledge gap and promoting informed choice, the platform ensures that students are not bound by societal pressures but are guided by passion, capability, and career relevance.
The ultimate objective of Nexgen Pathfinders is to build a generation of confident, informed, and purposeful individuals who follow careers they truly love and value transforming the narrative from forced choices to inspired journeys.
About the Millennium Fellow
Malaika Khan is an Economics student at the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) from Zhob, Balochistan, dedicated to policy research, social impact, and youth empowerment. She founded NEXGEN Pathfinders to provide career counselling for underserved youth and is currently interning at the NUST Institute of Policy Studies and working remotely with the Vanguard Think Tank at Johns Hopkins University. A Qimam Fellow 2025, she has represented Pakistan globally and aspires to lead in inclusive economic policy.











