Expert Spotlight: Casey Chang

As part of our Affirming Equity, Ensuring Inclusion, Empowering Action national initiative, we are proud to release expert spotlights sharing the perspectives of three students, in which they emphasize the role of faculty and leadership diversity in their higher education journeys. In this expert spotlight, we interviewed Casey Chang to learn how colleges and universities nationwide can affirm the belonging of diverse students in the aftermath of a SCOTUS decision that threatens to erode inclusion on campuses.

Casey Chang is an Asian American student advocate and transfer student from Mission College to University of California, Berkeley who began her college journey as a dual enrollment student in high school. She has a passion for social justice and advocacy, and she previously served as the student trustee to the West Valley-Mission Community College District Board of Trustees, as well as Vice President of Communication for the Student Senate for California Community Colleges.

Casey Chang represents California’s 2 million community college students as a student member of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. As an Asian American STEM major, a field where gender and racial diversity in faculty still remain uncommon, Casey found role models in other campus leadership and has since been an advocate for increasing representation. In this spotlight, learn how diverse faculty and leadership in colleges can make or break the success of students like Casey in the California Community Colleges.