ForbesUnder30 honoree Amanda Nguyen is fighting for sexual assault survivors' rights by founding nonprofit, Rise IWD2019
While a student at Harvard University, Amanda Nguyen became a victim of rape, as well as a broken criminal justice system. After undergoing an invasive forensic examination process that took six hours long, she learned that under state law, Massachusetts had the right to destroy the evidence from rape kits every six months, even though the statute of limitations is 15 years.
“I realized that I had a choice. I could accept the injustice or rewrite the law. And so I rewrote it,” says Nguyen. She founded Rise in 2014, a nonprofit that fights for the civil rights of sexual violence survivors. While at the helm of the organization, she wrote and advocated for the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights, codifying civil rights for 25 million rape survivors in the United States. The bill outlines the legal rights and helps ensure survivors receive the information they need to navigate the medical and legal systems.
The nonprofit CEO says running Rise with a startup mentality helped her mobilize survivors, activists and lawmakers across the country. “One thing that I think is applicable to not only organizing or activism, but to all social entrepreneurs is to have relentless, systematic organization,” she says. She adds that prioritizing team meetings, budgets and key performance indicators were just as important as the vigorous social campaigning.
The nonprofit’s new goal is to get the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights passed in all 50 states and to continue going global. According to Rise, 35% of women on earth - 1.30 billion people - are sexual violence survivors.MARINA DEL REY, CA - NOVEMBER 19: Honoree Amanda Nguyen speaks onstage during the Marie Claire Young Women's Honors presented by Clinique at Marina del Rey Marriott on November 19, 2016 in Marina del Rey, California.
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