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As a student, Chang was influenced by the anti-apartheid and the anti-racist movements at [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he worked as a community laborer and student organizer. He also worked as a lobbyist for the students of the [[California State University]]. Chang has lectured at colleges, universities, festivals, and institutions in the U.S. and around the world. Chang was an organizer of the inaugural National Hip-Hop Political Convention.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/nyregion/a-political-convention-with-beats.html|title=A Political Convention, With Beats|last=Gorce|first=Tammy La|date=June 27, 2004|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 13, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
 
Chang is a [[List of United States Artists (USA) Fellowship recipients|United States Artists Fellow]] in Literature, and has won awards such as the North Star News Prize award, the UTNE Reader award, the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award at Stanford University in 2014 and the 50 Visionaries Changing Your Word award. He cofounded CultureStrike and ColorLines movements. In 2005 he participated in a conversation with [[Tom Hayden]], the social and political activist and director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in [[Culver City, California]], in the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture.
 
In 2007, Chang interviewed then-candidate [[Barack Obama]], for the cover of ''[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cantstopwontstop.com/reader/its-obama-time-the-vibe-cover-story/|title=It's Obama Time :: The Vibe Cover Story|website=Can't Stop Won't Stop|language=en-US|access-date=December 13, 2019}}</ref> He has also written for ''[[The Nation]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', ''[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]'', ''[[Foreign Policy]]'', ''[[n+1]]'', ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'', ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'', ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', and ''[[BuzzFeed]]'', among others.