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 PHOENIX REGINALD ELLRODT, 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 26, SDG 14: Life Below Water & UNAI 9
" The Millennium Fellowship provides a powerful signal-boosting effect to planned demonstrations and public awareness campaigns that students would otherwise lack; Alongside this it comes with helpful & reliable resources to learn tangible skills regarding social advocacy, aiding in my personal development.
It is a stage for speakers; As much as it is water to a fledgling seed. "
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
Phoenix R. Ellrodt is an information technologies student from Pace University, studying for his Bachelor's degree.
He has always held a strong passion for sharing knowledge, and for advocating for the wrongs of the world to be righted; Resulting in an earnesty to see the truth, and an educational career marked by having risen to any occasion.
Phoenix is especially passionate about matters regarding public health, and throughout all of his college career has been closely working with groups on campus to organize public information campaigns addressing not just the right to clean water, but the right for the public to know what is in their water.
