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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.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ANDREA CAROLINA GIMENEZ, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | Santiago, Chile | Advancing SDG 17, SDG 4 & UNAI 8

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" “Young people, have great aspirations.” It is a very beautiful phrase that precisely inspires the ideas of this program: to grow, to learn, and to bring those innovations to others who can also benefit from them — always, above all, from an altruistic love that can create true voices of the future. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: NeuroDiplomacy

NeuroDiplomacy is a student-led project dedicated to breaking down barriers that limit the access of neurodivergent young people to the fields of international relations and diplomacy, recognizing both the unique challenges they face in traditionally rigid, soft-skill–intensive environments and the exceptional strengths they bring to analytical and creative problem-solving. Beginning at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the initiative seeks first to identify neurodivergent students interested in diplomatic careers and, in the long term, to actively integrate them into existing academic and extracurricular spaces such as Model UN, youth forums, student organizations, and networks of professors and researchers. Through talks, workshops, and guided participation, NeuroDiplomacy aims not only to foster inclusion, but to cultivate talent, empower future professionals, and contribute to a more diverse, representative, and innovative practice of diplomacy in an increasingly complex world.

About the Millennium Fellow

Andrea Carolina Gimenez Escalona is a young student with purposes and actions for others; selflessly, her interest is always to help others and show them that they too can grow, learn, and become future leaders. From her experience, career changes, and many life events, she also wants to teach based on what she has learned and what she has yet to learn through this program. In this sense, she hopes that everything learned here will serve future assistance and growth that will promote international opportunities.

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