Originally Published on Change.org on October 30, 2017 My name is Amanda Nguyen, and after my rape, I felt despair. So when I met a broken criminal justice system — like so many survivors who found out their rape kits can be destroyed before being tested — I rewrote the…
Originally published on Change.org on October 11, 2017 By Amanda Nguyen. Dear Friends, One year ago you helped us make history by passing the Federal Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights. Because of state’s rights, we have to fight for this bill in individual states. We are so close in…
Originally published on Change.Org on March 28, 2017 By Amanda Nguyen. Dear Supporters! There are 2 million CA rape survivors that don’t have access to equal rights under CA law. Our CA team needs help tomorrow – they are testifying and the vote in the House is on the same…
Originally published on Change.Org on March 17, 2017 By Amanda Nguyen. Friends, When President Obama signed our Survivor Bill of Rights into law we made history. Before Rise came along, only 20 bills, or 0.016%, in modern United States history had passed through Congress with unanimous support. Ours became the…
