Saving Five
Amanda Nguyen
AUWA Books
IN 2013, Amanda Nguyen was a senior at Harvard University, a high achiever whose parents had fled the communist takeover of Vietnam. She aspired to join the CIA or NASA, and her postgraduation job applications were in process when one night, after a fraternity party, she was raped. The experience shattered her.
A decade later, Nguyen has emerged as a role model. Her accomplishments include founding the civil rights organization Rise, a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, being named a 2022 Time Woman of the Year and becoming an astronaut. This month, she is scheduled to join five other women, including pop star Katy Perry, television host Gayle King and journalist Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, on a Blue Origin flight into space. (Jeff…
