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Amanda Nguyen

Amanda Ngọc Nguyễn (born October 10, 1991) is an American social entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and commercial astronaut. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Rise, a non-governmental civil rights organization. Nguyen drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, a bill that passed unanimously through the United States Congress. Nguyen has also been credited with kickstarting the movement to stop violence against Asian Americans after her video calling for media coverage went viral on February 5, 2021.

In recognition of her work, Nguyen was nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize by Mimi Walters and Zoe Lofgren, and was named one of the 2022 ''Time'' Women of the Year. She has also received the 24th Annual Heinz Award in Public Policy, ''Time'' 100 Next, ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30, and was credited as a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy. Furthermore, Nguyen is featured in the 2022 anthology ''We Are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States'' by Naomi Hirahara and published by the Smithsonian Institution and Running Press Kids.

On February 27, 2025, it was announced that Nguyen would fly aboard Blue Origin's eleventh spaceflight as a commercial astronaut under the New Shepard program. The Blue Origin NS-31 sub-orbital spaceflight took place on April 14, 2025, making Nguyen the first woman of Vietnamese heritage to fly into space. Provided by Wikipedia