Amanda Nguyen

Amanda Ngọc Nguyễn is a Vietnamese-American social entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and commercial astronaut. In 2014 she founded Rise, a non-governmental civil rights organization that works to implement a sexual assault survivors' bill of rights. She drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, a bill that passed unanimously through the United States Congress. She has also been credited with kickstarting the movement to stop violence against Asian Americans, after her video calling for media coverage went viral in February 2021.