The woman who was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner at Stanford University in 2015 is revealing her identity. Chanel Miller, who was only identified "Emily Doe" during court proceedings, is coming forward to detail how her life changed after Turner raped her behind a dumpster while she was intoxicated and unconscious.
Miller's story sparked outrage across the country after Turner was sentenced to only six months in county jail despite the emotional 12-page victim impact statement she read during his sentencing hearing.
Turner would spend just three months behind bars, and people across the country criticized the lenient sentence. The collective outrage sparked some changes in California.
The state passed a new law requiring mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of sexual assault, while Harvard banned hard alcohol on campus. Judge Aaron Persky, who handed down the sentence, became the first judge to be recalled by California voters since 1932.
Miller, who complained in her impact statement that she was unable to control her own narrative throughout the legal process, is getting the chance to tell her version of the story in a new memoir, Know My Name.
"I am no stranger to suffering. You made me a victim. In newspapers my name was "unconscious intoxicated woman," ten syllables, and nothing more than that," Miller told the court during Turner's sentencing hearing. "For a while, I believed that that was all I was. I had to force myself to relearn my real name, my identity. To relearn that this is not all that I am."
In 2017, Miller decided that she wanted to write a book and had a literary agent reach out to publishers.
"I jumped out of my chair to acquire it because it was just obvious to me from the beginning what she had to say and how different it was and how extraordinarily well she was going to say it." Andrea Schulz, the Editor-in-Chief of Viking, the book's publisher, told the New York Times.
Miller sat down for an interview with 60 Minutes to tell her side of the story for the first time. The interview will air on September 22 and her book, Know My Name, will be released on September 24.