Activist Amanda Nguyen will tell the story of her life in a new memoir, People magazine reports.
AUWA, the MCD imprint founded last year by drummer Questlove, will publish Nguyen’s Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope next year. The press describes the book as “a heart-wrenching memoir of survival and hope.”
Nguyen was raped in 2013 while she was a student at Harvard University and opted to wait to press charges. She learned that her rape kit would be destroyed by the state of Massachusetts if she did not officially report the crime within six months.
Her experiences led her to found the nonprofit group Rise, which advocates for sexual assault survivors, in 2014. Nguyen and Rise were behind the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2016 and which established a bill of rights for victims of sexual assault.
Nguyen, a former NASA intern, is scheduled to be the first woman of Vietnamese descent to fly to space next year.
Her memoir, AUWA says, is “a groundbreaking work that seamlessly blends memoir with a moving journey toward acceptance and hope, forging a path ahead that is as inspiring as it is instructive.”
Saving Five is slated for publication on March 4, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
