To my AAPI Community - Most of us came up the same way. Quietly. Watching everyone else for the rules. Our parents never said the word “representation” - they said be twice as good, because the door only opens once. That was the inheritance I carried into T3. But look how far we’ve come. More of us founding brands now. More of us in the rooms where the decisions get made. And we did that - for each other. This week, we opened our home to that truth. AAPI founders, creatives, and execs across beauty, all in one place. No panel, no stage. Just a room full of people who’d spent their careers being the only one, finding out they never had to be. Every person there was a leader, and every one of them shared freely - how they made it, what they’d do differently. No holding back. That’s what AAPI Heritage Month means to me. Not a milestone. A community that no longer climbs alone. - Dr. Julie Chung, Co-Founder, T3