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 VANESSA BEYONCE WANJIRU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
United States International University Africa | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 8, SDG 4, SDG 1 & UNAI 3
" Giving back is at the heart of what I do. I am motivated by the fact that my actions empower people to self-actualize in a secure way. Mental health plays a critical role in our wellbeing, performance, innovation, etc and it should therefore not be limited to specific people. I hope that the Millennium Fellow will guide me in my social impact to ensure that more lives are changed for the better using holistic approaches. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Mindful Sips
Mindful Sips is a multifaceted community based project based in Nairobi, Kenya which aims to cause disruptive change in the areas of mental health, financial literacy, and entrepreneurial mpowerment. This is being done through conventional mental health conversations, mental health fairs, financial advising, platforms that empower apprenticeship learning/ skill exchange thus enhancing entrepreneurial ventures. Since August we've majorly collected data and had conversations on two main topics; How social conditioning promotes Gender Based Violence in Kenya and How Strategic emotional intelligence when communicating is the key to intergenerational conflict resolution in organizational spaces.
About the Millennium Fellow
Vanessa Beyonce Wanjiru is an entrepreneurial, innovative, open-minded, intuitive, and social individual who thrives on the motivation of outperforming herself. She has performed exemplary in various roles as a student, leader, and professionally. She has a first degree in Biomedical science and technology and a second degree in Psychology, minoring in Organization Psychology. She is majorly passionate about mental health and social justice which got her into psychology and leadership respectfully. She is a current mentor in her previous high school where she equips girls with academic empowerment and mental wellness. She hopes to use this opportunity to learn from experts, network, and cause positive disruptive change within my community, country, and globally.
