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“I gave up my astronaut dream to fight for my rights and the rights of survivors across the world. Once I passed the laws, I decided I could honour the dreams I had before I was hurt.”
— Amanda Nguyen
Astronaut, Advocate and rape-survivor Amanda Nguyen takes the stage for an unfiltered conversation about sexual violence and the systems that perpetuate it, about race, identity, and diaspora, and about what it means to reclaim your life—and your dreams—in the aftermath of the unthinkable.
"A story of survival which ignited an entire movement and enabled sexual assault survivor rights."
— Natalie Portman
In 2013, three months before graduation, Amanda Nguyen was raped at Harvard.
The daughter of Vietnamese war refugees, Nguyen had spent her life defying the odds—studying astrophysics, interning at NASA, dreaming of the stars.
To protect her career, she filed her rape kit anonymously, to discover the state would destroy the evidence if not renewed, a bitter biannual marker, simply to preserve her chance at justice.
She had two choices: accept a system designed to silence survivors, or rewrite the law.
She rewrote the law.
Touring Australia and New Zealand for the first time, Amanda Nguyen takes the stage for an unfiltered conversation about sexual violence and the systems that perpetuate it, about race, identity, and diaspora, and about what it means to reclaim your life—and your dreams—in the aftermath of the unthinkable.
This is not a keynote. It is a reckoning, a testament, and a call to action—from one of the most extraordinary voices of her generation.
