Amanda Nguyen was just a month old when the YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley held its first fundraising luncheon in November 1991. That took her to Washington, D.C., where Congress passed and President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act in 2016. A bioastronautics research scientist, Nguyen finally saw her dream realized last April when she conducted experiments on a Blue Origin suborbital space flight. : For years, I’ve referred to San Jose’s Little Italy district as “burgeoning,” but with this Sunday’s 8th annual Little Italy Fest upon us, maybe the neighborhood is officially burgeoned. And it looks like the pull to Little Italy is so strong that even the venerable Original Joe’s will have a booth this year.