A white man shot nine people and killed eight people, including six Asian women at a spa salon in Atlanta, Georgia. The shootings come amid a surge of anti-Asian discrimination and violence in the past year.

Tina Tchen (president and CEO of TIME’S UP Foundation), Min Jin Lee (author), and Sung Yeon Choimorrow (Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum) shared their personal experiences in a roundtable discussion with the New York Times. Read the full interview here.