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In January 2015, Chanel Miller went to a party near Stanford University. By the end of the night, her life had changed forever. She was se*ually assaulted by Brock Turner, a Stanford student, while she was unconscious outside a fraternity party. Two graduate students cycling past noticed what was happening, intervened, and stopped the attack. But the ordeal didn’t end when Turner was arrested. During the trial, Chanel’s identity was protected. The public knew her only as “Emily Doe.” While Turner’s name appeared in headlines, she was forced to relive the assault through a legal process that exposed deeply personal details of her life. In 2016, Turner was convicted of three felony se*ual assault charges. The judge sentenced him to just six months in county jail. He served only three. The sentence sparked widespread outrage. But what happened next gave Chanel a voice heard around the world. At Turner’s sentencing, she read a powerful victim impact statement describing the trauma, humiliation, and lasting damage the assault had caused. When the statement was published online, it went viral, resonating with survivors and people who felt the justice system had failed her. For years, she remained anonymous. Then, in September 2019, she made a decision: she would no longer let the world know her only by the name given to her in court. Her name was Chanel Miller. She revealed her identity while preparing to publish her memoir, Know My Name. The book told her story in her own words—not simply as a victim of a notorious case, but as a person whose life, identity, and future were much bigger than what had happened to her. Her statement had already reached millions. By revealing her name, she reclaimed something the assault and its aftermath had threatened to take away: the right to define herself. The world first heard her as “Emily Doe.” She made sure it would remember Chanel Miller.