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 MAHATHI RAMNARAYAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Stella Maris College | Chennai, India | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 8
" Determination, critical thinking and a desire to see a greener world influence my personal social impact goals. The burden of climate change isn't felt equally by all people and countries, but it's a problem that can only be solved through global cooperation and collective effort, which itself begins on a personal and community level. Being a Millennium Fellow gives me the tools and the right support system to spread word of this drive for action as far and wide as possible, and collaborative effort among my campus Fellows is crucial to achieving this; I believe the Fellowship will also provide me with opportunities to better my skills and knowledge and harness them effectively to achieve a specific impact or purpose. For these reasons, I'm incredibly grateful to be a Fellow and very excited to see where this journey will take me and my dreams for change. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Third Space e-zine
The Third Space monthly e-zine will be a space for local fellowship members and interested audiences to explore important global and local topics from different angles—whether that’s through thoughtful writing, creative expression, or both. It’s published monthly and mixes deep-dive pieces with open contributions, giving everyone a chance to share their take on current affairs and issues, and to connect over what’s happening in the world from a local standpoint. The e-zine will cover themes like global conflict and its impact on human rights, the influence of colonialism on society even today, and the struggle for climate justice. We also plan to raise local awareness on critical global issues through educational seminars and fundraisers, which will contribute to our efforts in participating in global relief programs like the MSF.
About the Millennium Fellow
Mahathi Ramnarayan is a dedicated and enthusiastic student of literature at Stella Maris College, Chennai. Her passion for climate change and finding achievable ways for regular people to contribute to mitigating the approaching climate crisis translate both into her eco-anxious poetry and her goals for her Millennium Fellowship project of 2025-26. An ardent believer in social and ecological justice through collective responsibility and action, Mahathi strongly feels that every problem that finds representation in literature and in lived experience is solvable through awareness and concentrated effort, which is what she hopes to implement through her work in social impact and education in order to witness tangible change and make heard the planet's and affected people's testimony in the face of its destruction. After graduating, Mahathi aims to study further, specialising in international relations or social anthropology, and she hopes to continuing to work for climate action through any and all feasible media.
