Amanda Nguyen: The Civil Rights Astronaut, on Fighting for Freedom
The Dissenters with Debra Messing and Mandana Dayani
Dear Media, Mandana Dayani and Debra Messing
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🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Debra and Mandana sit down with Amanda Nguyen, the Harvard student who has helped pass 30 laws to protect over 80 million people and was just nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. After being the victim of a sexual assault crime, Amanda made it her mission to write the laws that didn’t exist to protect her.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey, this is just a friendly reminder to make sure that you are registered to vote for the |
| 0:06.6 | upcoming elections in November. |
| 0:08.8 | Make sure to text the word voter 2697 right now to check your registration and to receive your polling location |
| 0:16.5 | and reminders for all local, state, and federal elections in the future. |
| 0:20.9 | Thank you. I am an actress social justice advocate and humanitarian. I am Andana Dayani, an entrepreneur |
| 0:36.2 | attorney and most recently the co-founder of the nonpartisan movement I am a voter. |
| 0:40.4 | Welcome to the dissenters. So a little backstory, Mandana and I are very close friends and |
| 0:45.8 | we're constantly sending each other stories of incredible people who completely blow |
| 0:50.7 | our minds. And then one day we realized something. Most of them had no intention |
| 0:56.2 | of becoming heroes. They just knew they had to do something and did it. So we |
| 1:02.3 | decided to do what we do best. |
| 1:04.0 | Completely geek out on endless hours of research |
| 1:08.0 | to create our list of the 20 dissenters who blew us away. |
| 1:14.0 | Each episode we meet one of these incredible accidental activists |
| 1:18.0 | and learn about their journeys, |
| 1:20.0 | based on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's iconic I dissent slogan. |
| 1:23.0 | A dissenter is someone who stood up to an injustice or challenged the status quo. |
| 1:27.0 | In this episode, we meet our second dissenter. |
| 1:30.0 | Amanda Wynne, the Civil Rights astronaut. |
| 1:34.0 | Amanda is the CEO and founder of Riz, a non-governmental civil rights organization she founded |
| 1:40.7 | after experiencing firsthand the broken rape survivor justice system. |
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