Read the full transcript of Park’s speech below:
I just want to say thank you. It’s an honor to be here, and in a room full of creative people with vision and drive. I would like to thank my family, and my professional team, my personal team as well as my spiritual team, for helping me get to a place that would have been impossible for me on my own, and also get me out of prison. So far, so good.
In this current culture of ‘snap it, or it didn’t happen,’ it’s clear that humans, being a social creature, want to be relevant and reflected in society. We want to know, ‘Do we matter?’
So in this time of social change where diversity is being asked for and even demanded, and women’s voices are being heard in Hollywood, in tech, in politics, I am ever so grateful to witness the changing of the guard. And as a side note: The feminine will continue to rise.
But it’s beyond race and gender, and religion, age or class. It’s about human flourishing. That is what we should be going after. You could say that my career has been a bit of an experiment in finding where I fit in, or [in finding], ‘Do I matter?’ But I’ve realized that I’ve been stuck in a doorway for a very long time. I’ve been wondering, what would that grant us if more of us actually stepped through that doorway and accepted that we always matter? What would you do, how would you be, and what would our world look like? Thank you.
