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notes: label: Description
content: Amanda Nguyen is a civil rights activist and founder of Rise—a nonprofit organization that works to bring equality to sexual assault survivors across the U.S. and the world. Nguyen founded Rise in 2014 after experiencing first-hand the broken rape survivor justice system. Since its founding, Rise has worked to write and implement the Sexual Assault Survivor’s Bill of Rights, which passed unanimously in the U.S. Congress in 2016. Rise continues to work to pass the Survivor Bill of Rights on a state-level across all fifty states and has helped establish more than sixty-five similar laws. In addition to Rise, Nguyen has served at the White House, Department of State, and NASA. She is currently an astronaut candidate at the International Institute of Astronautical Science. For her work, Nguyen was a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and TIME 2022 Woman of the Year .
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Asian Pacific Americans
label: Subject
content: Asian Americans
label: Subject
content: Vietnamese Americans
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content: Culture and the Arts: Community Organizations
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0277.01
label: accession number
content: 2022.0277
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0277.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sash
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, maximum (expanded): 5 1/2 in x 86 in; 13.97 cm x 218.44 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, pinned: 5 1/2 in x 35 in; 13.97 cm x 88.9 cm