In 2013, the trajectory of Amanda Nguyen\u2019s life was changed forever when she was raped at Harvard.<\/p>\n
Facing these unfathomable circumstances at odds with her goal to join NASA after graduation, Nguyen decided to delay legal action and file her rape kit under \u201cJane Doe.\u201d She would then learn the harsh and limiting reality of her state\u2019s legislation \u2013 anonymous kits were only held for six months before being destroyed, thus eliminating a survivor\u2019s options for future legal action. This prompted Nguyen to pursue a cause larger than herself and in lieu of surrendering to a law that restricted her paths forward, she began to fight for change for survivors everywhere.<\/p>\n
Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope\u00a0<\/em>combines Nguyen\u2019s growth as an activist \u2013 eventually resulting in Congress unanimously passing of the Sexual Assault Survivors\u2019 Rights Act in 2016 \u2013 with a dramatized imagined journey through chapters of Nguyen\u2019s personal healing throughout her life. Told through the lenses of significant ages in her own story \u2013 five, fifteen, twenty-two, and thirty \u2013 Nguyen\u2019s informed introspection guides her younger selves and readers alike on her path toward recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2013, the trajectory of Amanda Nguyen\u2019s life was changed forever when she was raped at Harvard.<\/p>\n Facing these unfathomable circumstances at odds with her goal to join NASA after graduation, Nguyen decided to delay legal action and file her rape kit under \u201cJane Doe.\u201d She would then learn the harsh and limiting reality of her state\u2019s legislation \u2013 anonymous kits were only held for six months before being destroyed, thus eliminating a survivor\u2019s options for future legal action. This prompted Nguyen to pursue a cause larger than herself and in lieu of surrendering to a law that restricted her paths forward, she began to fight for change for survivors everywhere.<\/p>\n Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope\u00a0<\/em>combines Nguyen\u2019s growth as an activist \u2013 eventually resulting in Congress unanimously passing of the Sexual Assault Survivors\u2019 Rights Act in 2016 \u2013 with a dramatized imagined journey through chapters of Nguyen\u2019s personal healing throughout her life. Told through the lenses of significant ages in her own story \u2013 five, fifteen, twenty-two, and thirty \u2013 Nguyen\u2019s informed introspection guides her younger selves and readers alike on her path toward recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":66434,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[54],"class_list":["post-66175","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-arts-culture","cat_arts-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/66175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/66175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66175"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=66175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}