Amanda Nguyen

Amanda Nguyen founded Rise, a millennial-driven social change incubator for citizen lawmaking. Rise drafted and helped pass groundbreaking federal legislation that created the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights. Rise's historic legislation was passed, in just 7 months, unanimously through the U.S. House and Senate and was signed into law by President Obama in October 2016. This bill was one of only 0.016% substantive bills - one of 21 - in modern U.S. history, since 1980, to have unanimously passed into law. Now spreading the movement to Statehouses across the nation.

2019 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee | Founder & CEO of Rise| Formerly served at NASA, Obama White House, Department of State | Heinz Award Laureate | Forbes 30 Under 30 (2X) | Foreign Policy 100 | TIME 100 Next| Marie Claire Young Woman of the Year | The Tempest's #1 Woman of Color Trailblazer | Frederick Douglass 200 | Nelson Mandela Changemaker | Lead of Emmy-nominated Mini Documentary "Rise Above" by Money Magazine