AMANDA NGUYEN
Mar 05, 2022
3 minutes
BY CHANEL MILLER
N 2016, AMANDA NGUYEN CELEBRATED A major victory when President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act into law. Helping to craft the legislation, which reforms the handling of sexual assault evidence-collection kits on the federal level, was her way of fighting back after learning in 2013 that her own rape kit was set to be destroyed. The CEO of the nonprofit civil rights organization Rise didn’t stop there; Nguyen, 30, has gone on to help establish similar laws in 40 states to date, and has taken her movement to the
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