The woman at the center of Brock Turner's Stanford assault case is writing a memoir and revealing her name


Until now, Chanel Miller was better known as Emily Doe.
Miller is the previously anonymous victim sexually assaulted by Brock Turner at Stanford University in 2015, the woman whose impact statement sparked a national outcry against Turner's light sentence after BuzzFeed News published it. Now, Miller isn't just revealing her name and face. She has given an interview to 60 Minutes and written a memoir about her experience, and it's fittingly titled Know My Name.
Back in 2016, Turner was sentenced to just six months of a possible 20 years for his three charges of felony sexual assault. But Miller's impact statement, which she read at Turner's sentencing, forced her case beyond the courtroom. The judge who sentenced Turner was ultimately recalled by voters, and California passed a law requiring mandatory minimum sentences for anyone convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious person.
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In a clip of Miller's 60 Minutes appearance, she re-reads part of that impact statement. Watch Miller recall how her name was reduced to "unconscious, intoxicated woman" in newspapers throughout the case, and describe how she was able to "relearn that this is not all that I am."
Miller's full 60 Minutes interview will air Sunday, Sept,. 22 at 7:30 p.m. ET, and Know My Name will come out Sept. 24.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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