PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – As they each prepare for the 2020-21 school year, junior Chloe Mayhew (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck) of the Pace field hockey team and sophomore Kendra Cooper-Smith (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y./The Masters School) of the Setters' women's basketball squad have been selected as a Class of 2020 Millennium Fellow.

Chosen by the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network, Mayhew and Cooper-Smith were amongst nine Pace students (and 1,428 students total) to be tabbed for the Fellowship, which saw more than 15,000 applicants from over 1,400 campuses across 135 nations.

"It is an absolute honor to represent Pace University as a Millennium Fellow for the Class of 2020," said Mayhew. "I am very thankful for the amazing opportunity to work with other like-minded young leaders across the world to make a positive social impact within our communities. I look forward to the challenges, experiences, and possibilities that lie ahead with this Fellowship."

The Fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program on campuses worldwide to take social impact to the next level. There are many components to the program, the main one being that students lead projects in their respective institution and communities (while communicating and collaborating with fellows from all over the world) to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.

"I'm extremely excited to be a part of a worldwide community of divers activists and forward-thinkers working towards a better world," said Cooper-Smith. "I can't wait to use the Millennium Fellowships' guidance and resources to develop my goal 14 (life under water) project, which focuses on water eutrophication throughout the lower Hudson Valley and the ways our River Towns and local farms can aid these pressing issues."

Mayhew will be entering her junior year in Pleasantville as a Global Studies major with a 3.88 cumulative GPA, while Cooper-Smith is a sophomore Environmental Studies major with a 3.68 GPA.

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