Jeff Chang

Board Chair

A leader in narrative and cultural strategy, cultural organizing, and cultural justice advocacy, Jeff Chang co-founded CultureStr/ke, now the Center for Cultural Power, and the Webby-nominated May 19th Project. He led the Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy. He helped to write the Cultural New Deal alongside a number of artists and culture bearers. His first book, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, was named by Slate as one of the best nonfiction books of the last quarter century. Born of Chinese and Kanaka Maoli descent, Jeff is an alumnus of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Los Angeles.