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 ROSE CRYSTAL AKINYI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Nairobi Parklands Campus | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 17 & UNAI 6
" Creative innovation, outreach and growth inspire me to aid in assisting the growth of societies and youth around us. In Kenya, most students may have been geared towards the academic aspect of school and did not get the chance to participate in co - curricular that indicate the importance of UN sustainability goals. Further, among the major challenges facing youth in Kenya is lack of job opportunities. Fellowship would enhance my skills and provide a network to work with like-minded professionals. It would also make my impact more tangible and aligned with the SDGs. I'm excited to learn more skills and enable more people to benefit from my knowledge and participation. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: SOLAD(Students Organization of Law and Diplomacy
The project is on equipping undergraduate students of law and diplomacy with skills that would enable them to pursue their diplomatic careers. I realized most students aren't aware of the requirements of how to join the Foreign service Academy. This is an major issue especially the youth being prone to unemployment in Kenya and that political diplomats take majority as compared to career diplomats in Kenya.
Most programs focus on Masters students as compared to that of undergraduate were students get to choose major career paths. Kenya lacks frameworks that regulates the balance of career and political diplomats as in other jurisdictions such as Argentina that has a numeric threshold
About the Millennium Fellow
Rose Crystal Akinyi is a student undertaking her undergraduate in Bachelor of Law at the University of Nairobi. She is a value driven go getter who is competitive and likes to push herself to greater heights. She was born ,raised and still resides in Nairobi, Kenya.
Rose has always been passionate about community service and being involved in societal impactful activities. From a young age she would love to volunteer when it came to visiting or assisting the church with outreach that builds the societies around them. This drive further grew into love of international law, diplomacy and participating in societal impactful programs.
In high school among the various clubs she was a great participant of were, St.Johns which included first aid skills and Presidential Awards club.
Both involved participating in community building activities eg, school cleaning/building and visiting of children homes and camping and hiking of different levels leading to gaining of GDPs that would be awarded totalling to the overall performance. Further, in university she leads a club that strives to bring the correlation between law and diplomacy. Her key interest being creating spaces where the youth may obtain knowledge of diplomatic opportunities and how to access them.
She also volunteers at a Model United Nations that trains high school students on UN voting procedures to enable them to be able to enhance the UN sustainable goals and participate in global discussions and negotiations.
Rose aspires to be in a professional field which would provide her contribution and accesses in the development of the youth and enhancing the UN sustainable development goals.
