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When Stephanie Chang began knocking on doors in and around Detroit in pursuit of a statehouse seat in the Michigan legislature, the most common question she received didn’t have anything to do with her policy positions or her decade of experience as a community organizer.
“How old are you, anyways?” voters asked. Chang is 30, but admits to looking a more youthful 20.
Perhaps there was some initial skepticism to overcome, but ultimately Chang prevailed, winning the primary in her heavily Democratic, African-American district earlier this month with nearly 50 percent of the vote.
If – as is likely the case – she is sworn into office next year, Chang, the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, will be something of an anomaly: The first Asian-American woman in the legislature and one of the few youthful faces in a body that continues to be dominated by older white men.
To read the full article published on August 22nd 2014, please click here.
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Photo-stephaniechang.com
When Stephanie Chang began knocking on doors in and around Detroit in pursuit of a statehouse seat in the Michigan legislature, the most common question she received didn’t have anything to do with her policy positions or her decade of experience as a community organizer.
“How old are you, anyways?” voters asked. Chang is 30, but admits to looking a more youthful 20.
Perhaps there was some initial skepticism to overcome, but ultimately Chang prevailed, winning the primary in her heavily Democratic, African-American district earlier this month with nearly 50 percent of the vote.
If – as is likely the case – she is sworn into office next year, Chang, the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, will be something of an anomaly: The first Asian-American woman in the legislature and one of the few youthful faces in a body that continues to be dominated by older white men.
To read the full article published on August 22nd 2014, please click here.