ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2020
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In the three months the application was open in 2020, 15,159 young leaders applied to join the Class of 2020 on 1,458 campuses across 135 nations. 80 campuses worldwide (just 6%) were selected to host the 1,000+ Millennium Fellows. The Class of 2020 is bold, innovative, and inclusive.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT SADHANA JAYAKUMAR NADATHUR, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
IIT Madras | Chennai, India | Advancing SDG 13 & UNAI 9
" I am very excited to be working with a team of enthusiastic and grounded individuals! As a conscientious global citizen, I feel the urge to start putting in my effort to save our burning earth, flames getting even bigger as I sit here typing. I find the lack of consciousness and awareness about the urgency of these issues really disturbing and it drives me towards action. It may be too late to prevent the oncoming crisis but the least I can do is do my bit in softening the blow. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Campus Climate Collective
Our vision is to facilitate the creation of sustainable, scalable and easily-replicable instruments to combat climate change locally and globally. We aim to do this by incentivising innovation, facilitating interdisciplinary research, and helping consolidate efforts from various climate action bodies on campus. We will hold an orientation session for newly-joining undergraduate and post-graduate students (2000+ students) sensitizing them about the campus and their role in it, making them aware of the field of climate change technology and research (research opportunities, climate action groups, career options, etc.) We plan to host 3 talks with eminent personalities in the field of climate action, each from academic, activist and political/diplomatic perspectives, reaching at least 100 people each. We will create an online knowledge and resource sharing platform for researchers on campus in the field of climate technologies, across departments, to share and update the status of their work.
About the Millennium Fellow
Sadhana Nadathur Jaykumar is pursuing a degree in Development Studies. She is particularly passionate about gender development with a focus on policy and research. Having worked with different development organisations, she firmly believes that her privilege needs to be appropriated to help the underprivileged. In her free time, Sadhana can be found analysing cultural practices for sociological explanations!
