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 NAILAH BROWN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Pace University Pleasantville | Pleasantville, United States | Advancing SDG 6, SDG 1, SDG 3, SDG 7, SDG 9, SDG 10, SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 14, SDG 13, SDG 15, SDG 24, SDG 14: Life Below Water & UNAI 9
" I do the work I do to help make our world a more accepting, diverse, and future oriented place. I believe that if everyone's basic human needs were met, it would fuel innovation and permit us to progress at a much faster rate. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Right-to-Know H2O '25
Student teams from Pace University in New York and Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) in Finland are jointly proposing a partnership we believe unique in MCN history – teams from schools 4,000 miles apart applying separately but collaborating intensively on a bilateral model to address an urgent, inherent principle of SD6: the right to safe water requires the right to know water is safe. We will build upon the work of Pace’s 2024 team which found that the combined population of the world’s 25,000 higher education institutions – an estimated 270 million water users -- would place it fourth on the list of the world’s most populous nations. This statistic alone offers a powerful statement about the need for schools in and out of the MCN network to increase water awareness and influence global policy. Our joint deliverable will be an information and education model that can promptly inform water users of the quality of their water, with a timeline that will include immediately achievable goals, and projected technical innovations. We believe this model will apply not only to colleges and universities, but gain international attention, including at the United Nations itself.
About the Millennium Fellow
Nailah Brown is a passionate, creative, civic oriented student studying computer science at Pace University. They were born and raised in Jamaica Queens, New York. For as long as they could remember, their parents instilled in them the importance of fresh drinking water, always having a fresh water filter in their home. It was this that lead them to join the Blue CoLab at Pace University to further their goal of bringing fresh water to all 7 continents of the world, as fresh water is a human right. Some of Nailah's other social justice passions are LGBTQ+ rights, the Black Lives Matter movement, and bringing awareness to the genocide in Palestine.
