Nancy Chang

Born to parents hailing from Tianjin, China, Nancy grew up in Elk Grove, California. She attended Stanford University studying Earth Systems with a focus on sustainable food and agriculture. During her time in college, she developed a passion for food justice through food recovery efforts and environmental justice organizing. Nancy brought together on-campus academic, activist, and environmental groups for an event on food sovereignty and land liberation, delivered by a collective of pan-indigenous young farmers called Black Earth Farms. She organized farm work days and breakfast cook days to bring students off campus to farm, cook, and volunteer with Bay Area food justice groups and community leaders. Passionate about childhood nutrition, she co-designed and co-taught a culturally appropriate nutrition curriculum for elementary schoolers in East Palo Alto. Last summer, Nancy performed field research through the Rural Education Action Program that informed a nutrition program for babies in rural China.

Field placement: Food Lifeline

Seattle, Washington

Policy placement: Food Research & Action Center

Washington, D.C.