02 Apr Amanda Nguyen
Speaker: AMANDA NGUYEN
Astronaut, Civil Rights Activist; 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee; CEO & Founder of Rise
Speech Topics Include:
- Rise: The most successful social justice movement in US history
- AAPI Heritage Month
Amanda Nguyen is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and civil rights activist who authored the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights, delivering powerful keynotes on advocacy, justice, and creating systemic change. After experiencing sexual assault and discovering how the system failed survivors, she wrote and passed federal legislation in record time. Amanda speaks on turning personal trauma into political action, effective advocacy strategies, and how ordinary people can create extraordinary change in their communities and nation.
Amanda will become the first Vietnamese woman to go to space when she flies on Blue Origin’s upcoming launch on the New Shepard rocket. Amanda’s activism focuses on the intersection of race and gender. She ignited the Stop Asian Hate movement and passed sexual assault survivor rights in the United States and United Nations through her work at Rise. For her work she was nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize and is a 2022 TIME Woman of the Year.
- Rise: The most successful social justice movement in US history
- AAPI Heritage Month
