Amanda Nguyen

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Civil Rights Activist; 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee; CEO & Founder of Rise

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Amanda Nguyen Biography

Amanda Nguyen is a civil rights activist. She ignited the Stop Asian Hate movement and passed the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, both in the United States and with the United Nations. As the founder and CEO of Rise, a social movement accelerator, she teaches grassroots organizing. She is also an expert advisor on the Chloé Sustainability Board. A significant part of her advocacy work focuses on being a sexual abuse victim advocate.

For her tireless efforts, she has been recognized as a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and in 2022, she was named TIME Woman of the Year. Nguyen played Hanoi Hannah in Spike Lee’s film "Da Five Bloods". She has also served at the White House, Department of State, and NASA. Amanda Nguyen made history as the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman astronaut on Blue Origin's first-ever all-female spaceflight that launched Monday, April 14.

In recognition of her work, Nguyen is a Heinz Laureate and Nelson Mandela Changemaker and was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 lists in 2017 and 2019. She was also named as one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2016 and was included in the Time 100 Next list in 2019. Her other accolades include being featured in The Frederick Douglass 200 List in 2018 and The Tempest's 40 Women to Watch in 2017. In 2016, she received the Young Women's Honors Award from Marie Claire, and later, in 2019, she was recognized in Vanity Fair's Global Goals. She was featured in the BBC's 100 Women of 2021 list. In 2018, Shepard Fairey created a portrait of Amanda Nguyen for the "We the Future" campaign, which was distributed to 20,000 schools in the U.S. She is also featured in the 2022 anthology "We Are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States." Nguyen served at NASA and the State Department under the Obama Administration and is an alumnus of Harvard University.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/15/2025.

Amanda Nguyen Speaking Topics

  • Rise: The most successful social justice movement in US history

Amanda Nguyen Videos

  • Ending Violence Against Women with Amanda Nguyen
    Amanda Nguyen is a sexual assault survivor and founder of Rise, a civil rights organization that fights for the rights of sexual assault survivors...
  • Amanda Nguyen - Supporting Sexual Assault Survivors Amid COVID-19
    Activist Amanda Nguyen and her nonprofit Rise have created a Survivor Safe Haven program to combat the spike in sexual violence following the spread...
  • Amanda Nguyen, Civil Rights Activist and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee | MAKERS
    Every 6 months, Amanda Nguyen had to fight to make sure her rape kit wasn’t destroyed. She wrote the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights so...

Amanda Nguyen Books

  • Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
    Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope

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