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In her final semester at Harvard, Amanda Nguyen was raped. She did everything survivors are told to do. Then she discovered that the physical evidence collected from her own body would be destroyed in 6 months — unless she filed paperwork to stop it. And then filed it again. Every 6 months. Forever. She was 22 years old. She decided to change federal law instead. 🌟
Amanda had interned at NASA. She had big plans. The kind of future that takes years of hard work to build was finally within reach.
Then everything shattered.
She went to the hospital. She reported the assault to police. She endured the forensic exam. She made the careful decision to file her rape kit anonymously — worried that an open case could affect security clearance applications for her dream careers.
That's when the system revealed how broken it truly was.
Because she was anonymous, Massachusetts law gave her only 6 months before her rape kit — physical evidence collected from her own body — would be permanently destroyed.
Not the 15 years the state allowed for pressing charges.
Six months.
No official process to extend it. No clear instructions. No one to guide her. She had to figure it out herself, every 6 months, forcing herself to relive the worst experience of her life just to preserve her right to eventually seek justice.
She started researching rape kit laws in all 50 states.
What she found was staggering.
Some states kept kits for years. Others destroyed them in as little as 30 days. Some states charged survivors for the cost of their own kit collection. Others never notified survivors what happened to their evidence. No consistency. No standard.
*"Justice should not depend on geography,"* she said.
But it did.
In November 2014, Amanda founded Rise — a nonprofit dedicated to changing that reality. Everyone who worked with Rise was a volunteer. They fundraised through crowdfunding.
Their goal was rewriting federal law.
She met with lawmakers across Washington. Staffers told her it wasn't a priority. Some questioned her story. She kept going. She learned that the most powerful thing she could do was stop being abstract — to walk into a room, look a senator in the eyes, and say: *this happened to me. I am sitting in front of you.*
Together with Senator Jeanne Shaheen, she drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act — proposing that survivors should never be charged for their rape kit collection, should receive testing results, and must be notified at least 60 days before their evidence was scheduled for destruction.
In February 2016, the bill was introduced.
It passed the Senate unanimously.
It passed the House unanimously.
Not a single vote against.
On October 7, 2016, President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act into federal law.
Amanda Nguyen was 24 years old.
Rise continued working state by state. To date, Rise has helped pass 33 laws across the United States, covering protections for over 84 million rape survivors.
A movement started in spare time, with no budget and only volunteers, became one of the most effective civil rights campaigns of its generation.
And Amanda never stopped reaching for the stars — literally.
In 2024, Blue Origin announced she would be the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space. The young woman who had once feared that fighting for justice would cost her a future in space proved the two didn't have to be a choice.
She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Named a Time Woman of the Year. She wrote a memoir called *Saving Five.*
But perhaps the most remarkable thing about Amanda Nguyen's story is not any single achievement.
It is the fact that she turned the most painful moment of her life into something that made the world more just for millions of people who will never know her name.
She was a college student who needed the system to work.
When it didn't, she rebuilt it herself.
**At 24 years old.

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