Jamie Nguyen

Feb 17, 2024 | aol.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Ellison Barber |Jamie Nguyen |Kenzi Abou-Sabe |Merritt Enright | +1 more

It was just six weeks after giving birth that Laurie Kanyok visited her gynecologist Robert Hadden at Columbia University for a post-partum checkup in 2012. When a nurse working with Hadden left the room, he assaulted Kanyok. “There was no one else in the room. I was naked in a paper gown. And here’s a man that had the guts to orally assault me,” Kanyok told NBC News. “All these things go through your mind. Who do I speak to? How do I get out of here? Who’s going to believe me?

May 25, 2023 | yahoo.com | Jamie Nguyen

Growing up, I always felt different. I didn’t want anyone coming over to my house to play, worried they’d think there were weird smells coming from the kitchen. My grandma might offer them a strange snack. I didn’t want the questions about why we didn’t wear shoes in the house, or to have to explain the reason my grandma and aunts and uncles all lived with us.