Chanel Miller

Chanel Miller is an American author, artist, and advocate. Born in 1992, she is best known as the survivor in the Stanford sexual assault case of 2016, in which Brock Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting her while she was unconscious behind a dumpster on the Stanford University campus. For several years she was publicly known only as 'Emily Doe,' and the impact statement she wrote and delivered at Turner's sentencing—which went viral when BuzzFeed published it and was read by millions of people around the world—is considered one of the most powerful pieces of survivor advocacy writing of the decade. Know My Name (2019) is Miller's memoir, revealing her identity and telling the full story of the assault, the trial, and its aftermath. The book won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction in 2020, the American Library Association Alex Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. It is celebrated for its literary beauty, its fierce clarity, and its contribution to public understanding of sexual violence, survivor trauma, and the failures of the criminal justice system. Miller is also a visual artist who shows her work under the name Emily Doe. She lives in California.