Amanda Nguyen
Amanda Nguyen is the CEO of Rise, a 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and an Astronaut-Scientist Candidate at the Astronautical Science Institute. For her anti-Asian hate and women's rights activism, she's TIME's 2022 Woman of the Year. She was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 twice, is a Chloé Sustainability Board member, and served at NASA and the White House. Amanda graduated from Harvard University. Amanda’s directorial debut, Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men, won Best Feature at the 2022 Cannes Independent Film Festival. She is the lead of Emmy-nominated Mini Documentary "Rise Above" by Money Magazine.
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