Cleveland Survivor Michelle Knight Hopes to Reunite with Other Two Women Someday: 'Let's Move On'

Michelle Knight and her husband Miguel Rodriguez.Photo: Melanie Acevedo

On the sixth anniversary of Michelle Knight’sescape from the abductorwho kept her chained inside his Cleveland home, along with two other women, for more than a decade, Knight continues to keep moving forward.

Knight, 38, has spent the years after captivity working on herself, and says she’s ready to give back to others – includingAmanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, who she hasn’t spoken to since they escaped from Ariel Castro’s home in 2013.

But Knight realizes not everyone may be ready, and she’s happy to wait until “my last day on earth,” she says.

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Berry has hosteda news segmentabout missing people in Ohio, and DeJesus has been working at anonprofit to help the families of missing people. In 2015, Berry told PEOPLE there are no hard feelings between them, but she had no interest in speaking to Knight.

“We’re two different people,” Berry told PEOPLE at the time. “We all went through something really, really bad that probably only the three of us will ever understand. I wish her the best in the future.”

For now, Knight is focused on sharing her gratitude with her hometown community, which she credits for helping her get through her most difficult times at the start of her recovery. She’ll be getting the chance to meet the public when theNew York Timesbestselling authorattends herfirst book signingat a local Barnes & Noble on Saturday.

Before then, she plans on visiting several women’s shelters so she can let victims of domestic violence and human trafficking know they’re not forgotten.

“I want to be that voice for the voiceless who can’t speak for themselves. I want to give them a way to raise their voice and speak out against those things that are happening in their life,” she says.

When she’s not sharing her story, she’s at home with her husband Miguel Rodriguez, who she married three years ago on the anniversary of her escape. Together, they have built a life outside of Cleveland that includes cooking, gardening and rehabilitating rescue animals.

“I’m always going to remember what happened to me. It’s never going to go away,” she says. “I survived a life of horrible things. I’m a survivor. That’s what I want people to remember me as.”

source: people.com