Amanda Nguyen was just a month old when the YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley held its first fundraising luncheon in November 1991. But on Wednesday, she joined the ranks of speakers that have included Anita Hill, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jane Goodall, Ruby Bridges, Geena Davis and Erin Brockovich — and the story she shared was just as inspiring as any of them.

With nearly 800 people in attendance at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Nguyen talked about how her dream of being an NASA astronaut was derailed in 2013 when she was raped at Harvard. Her path then led her away from space and into the world of activism, where she fought to secure rights for sexual assault survivors. That took her to Washington, D.C., where Congress passed and President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Righ

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