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10 AAPI People on How They’ve Become More Active in Their Community

While the past several years have been particularly challenging for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, what with the surge of anti-Asian racism amid the coronavirus pandemic. While the media attention to the violence has faded with time, news of attacks on AAPI elderly continue to occur, causing people to change their habits, adapt to new risks, and look to the future.

For many, it’s encouraged them to take part in their local communities, social groups, and even their own families to make voices heard. And despite the disheartening continuation of these occurrences, others are facing the future with optimism — since few things have brought the sprawling, beautifully diverse AAPI community together quite like this.

It’s a poignant topic that hits home for many, which is why we’ve asked influential people in the beauty industry and beyond to share how they’re feeling and what they’re looking forward to, in hopes that it can inspire all of us to do the same in the face of hate.

Deborah Yeh, Global Chief Purpose Officer at Sephora

10 AAPI People on How They’ve Become More Active in Their Community

“​​The biggest gift for me over the last year has been to connect to a broader Asian American Pacific Islander community. In the past, if you were to ask about my ethnic and racial identity, I would have told you that I am Chinese American.  Even more specifically, I would have said I am a second generation Chinese American.  But over the last year, I find myself in this larger category of “AAPI”—both by force and by choice.

Here’s the negative: As Asian-Americans, we’re sometimes thrown together into a broad class of people who are “not from here.”  But there is also a beautiful positive: As Asian Americans, we have rich traditions, unbelievable stories of immigration and overcoming, and our community has so much strength to offer each other in these times. I choose to live in the positive.

My hope for the Asian American community is that we can demonstrate all the great things that emerge when you create a broad and powerful multi-cultural alliance.  We can cherish our specific backgrounds while also appreciating the diversity within others.  We can achieve our individual and family dreams while also being strong in solidarity with each other.”

Kathleen Hou, Elle Beauty Director

“These past few years have been some of the most heartbreaking, trying and difficult of my life. It doesn’t come naturally to me to share. But it has only been through sharing — in therapy, being vulnerable in writing and on social media, and participating in wider scale, often difficult discussions about race,  that I was able to find some way to move through the year.

My hope is that we continue to talk, to push for progress, come together as a community, and hold generosity, grace and kindness for each other. And to make sure that all the AAPI stories get told!”

Yin Chang and Moonlynn Tsai, Heart of Dinner founders

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