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The United Nations Academic Impact and MCN partner to present the Millennium Fellowship.  This year, 5,500+ Millennium Fellows have built a grassroots movement strengthening their communities.  Fellows have dedicated hundreds of thousands of hours shaping 2,000+ grassroots civic initiatives to tackle inequities, discrimination, and climate change, making the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reality.​

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Thousands of Millennium Fellows worldwide will join live for Graduation. Fellows will spotlight their civic commitments, engage with global leaders, and join thousands of Alumni in sustaining their social impact beyond graduation. 

Wednesday

November 18th, 2026
10:00 am ET - 12:00 pm ET

Zoom

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What Change Looks Like: Courage, Creativity, Community

This theme explores the many ways social change happens and the different forms leadership can take. From challenging established norms and developing innovative solutions to mobilizing communities and advocating for greater equity, it recognizes that there is no single pathway to creating impact. It celebrates the courage to address difficult challenges, the creativity to imagine new possibilities, and the importance of working with communities to make those possibilities real.

Three Sparks from a Thousand

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Beyond the Lecture Hall

Donald Jose from Midlands State University is working on his Project Beyond the Lecture Hall. Beyond the lecture hall which aims at equipping students with entrepreneurial skills that will help them sustain their future after graduation and we discovered that starting earlier doing a small start up will lead to a better future than graduating and start waiting for employment.

Midlands State University, Zimbabwe

GLOBAL GENERATION AWARD

Each year at Graduation, MCN honors leaders who are using their global platforms to boldly and positively shape the world. Past recipients include Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Malala Yousafzai, Muhammad Yunus, and Cecelia Conrad.

This year, we recognize:

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Michael Brown 

Principal, Public Purpose Strategies
Co-Founder, City Year
Senior Advisor, MCN

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Josh Fryday

Chief Service Officer, California Volunteers, Office of the Governor

Speakers Joining Us:

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Jasmine Tendo Mpoza

Event MC

Millennium Fellow '26

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences

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Monica Zimba

Millennium Fellow '26

EARTH University

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Sasha Palmer

Millennium Fellowship Alumna '23 ​Pace University

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Aleksandra Gorišek

Department of Global Communications

United Nations

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Rafiah Binte Mizan

Millennium Fellow '26

North South University

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Arni Madhok

Millennium Fellowship Alumna '25

University of South Florida

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Natasha Kulviwat

Millennium Fellow '26

Harvard University

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Lindsey Davis

Millennium Fellow '26

Spelman College

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Sam Vaghar

Executive Director

Millennium Campus Network

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Kahukya Hope Patience

Millennium Fellow '26

Makerere University

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Sean Alexander

Millennium Fellowship Alum '23

Georgia Institute of Technology

A Look Back at Millennium Fellowship Graduations

Millennium Fellowship Class of 2025 Global Graduation
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Millennium Fellowship Class of 2024 Graduation
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Millennium Fellowship Class of 2023 Global Graduation
01:58:26
Millennium Fellowship Class of 2022 Graduation
01:40:55
Millennium Fellowship Class of 2021 Graduation
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Millennium Fellowship Class of 2020 Graduation & 10th Anniversary of UNAI
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Millennium Fellowship Graduation - Class of 2019
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Millennium Fellowship Graduation - Class of 2018
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