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Stephanie Chang (張理)

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Stephanie Chang (張理)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Stephanie Chang
  • Chinese: 張理
  • Era: 1983
  • Geography: Detroit, MI
  • Core roles: educator, legislator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. First Asian American woman and first Taiwanese American elected to the Michigan State Senate (2018–)

Career Notes

(absorbed from the page’s own TAH tables — no external sourcing)

Stephanie Chang began her career in community organizing in Detroit: assistant to social activist Grace Lee Boggs, mentor at the Detroit Asian Youth Project, organizer for Michigan United/One United Michigan (2006–), and Deputy Director of Campaign for Justice (2007–2012). She co-founded and formerly led APIAVote-Michigan, and served as Community Engagement Coordinator at the James and Grace Boggs School (2013–) and Alumni Engagement and Evaluation Coordinator at The Center for Progressive Leadership.

She represented Michigan House District 6 as State Representative for two terms (2015–2017), then became the first Asian American woman — and first Taiwanese American — elected to the Michigan State Senate in 2018.

Education

  • Univ. of Michigan — 2005 — B.A., Psychology with a minor in Asian Pacific Islander American Studies — 2014 — M.S., Public Policy & Social Work

Employment

  • Michigan State Representative for House District 6 — State Representative (First Term) — (2015-2017) — Michigan State Representative for House District 6 — State Representative (Second Term) — (2017-) — Assistant to social activist Grace Lee Boggs — Assistant — Detroit Asian Youth Project — Mentor — Michigan United/One United Michigan — Organizer — (2006-) — Campaign for Justice — Deputy Director — (2007-2012) — APIAVote-Michigan — Co-founder and former president — James and Grace Boggs School — Community Engagement Coordinator — (2013-) — The Center for Progressive Leadership — Alumni Engagement and Evaluation Coordinator — Community — APIAVote-Michigan — Co-founder and former president

Family

  • Husband: Sean Gray
  • Father: 張連彰
  • Mother: |沈麗華

Vault records (absorbed 2026-09-10; all four are this page’s own cited works)

Vault cross-references (2026-09-10)

  • Her own TAH encyclopedia records are held in-vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/196-stephanie-chang|TAH #196]] · [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-102-stephanie-chang|TAH #102 Who’s Who]]
  • Mother |沈麗華’s page cross-lists her; Detroit community work ties to the chapter network |TAA Detroit TAGD

Sources

Detroit network (in-vault pages, deepened 2026-09-14)

Her organizing geography and campus years both have vault pages: the Detroit-area Taiwanese women’s network |NAWDET Detroit chapter, the chapter network |TAA Detroit TAGD, and her undergrad campus groups |TSA at U-M and |TASA at U-M. Her own coverage in the TaiwaneseAmerican.org corpus: |Stephanie Chang representing Detroit.

Movement record mentions (corpus, deepened 2026-10-10)

Her elections and district work are recorded in the taiwaneseamericanhistory.org story corpus:

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/important2016-12||Important 2016 #12: won second term as State Representative, Michigan House District 6 (2016)]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-137||Photo Albums #137: First Taiwanese American State Senator Stephanie Chang, Michigan (2018)]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories532||My Stories #532: State Rep. Stephanie Chang Knocked on Every Door in Her District—Twice (Mattie Kahn, 2017)]]

Mother’s memoir (corpus, deepened 2026-10-11)

Mother |沈麗華 (Sarlina Shen Chang) writes for the TAH story corpus; her essay “女兒從政” (Daughter in Politics) was published 2018-11-08 — days after the November 2018 midterms in which Stephanie won her State Senate seat — as the family’s community record of her political career:

  • 沈麗華 (思理) — 2018-11-08 Her other in-corpus essays (68. 投票日那天, 2014; 453. Duck prints in the April snow) do not name Stephanie in the bibliographic record — HOLD: relevance unconfirmed, not linked.

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📷 照片取自公開檔案（來源：taiwanjustice.net，Wayback 存檔 20190729014004）。圖說為原始來源所提供，Echo 未經人工逐張查證——若您認得圖中人，歡迎回報修正。

2026-10-13 re-sweep (DEEPEN-X slice 10121000-14)

Fresh grep (Stephanie Chang / 張理 / surname) across all five corpus dirs returned the same linked hit set already cited above (TAH #196, #102 Who’s Who, vault record, Important 2016 #12, Photo Albums #137, My Stories #532, mother’s memoir 女兒從政, TaiwaneseAmerican.org Detroit interview). No new community material found — page is corpus-saturated.

Name-collision disambiguation (matched on substring, NOT this person, not linked):

  • 張理盈 (Li-Ying Chang, pianist — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1206||TAH #1206]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/musician353||TAH #353]])
  • 張理美 (Beverly Chang — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-964-lii-mei-chang||TAH #964]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys305||Our Journeys #305]], Photo Albums #129)
  • HOLD: a “Stephanie Chang” listed as FASCA-LA teaching assistant in a 2021 taiwanjustice.net article (LA, high-school program) — surname+given match only; no evidence this is the Michigan legislator. Not linked.

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