Christina Chang

Programs: Advocacy

As Policy Manager, Christina helps develop policy proposals and identify policy priorities that reflect human rights standards and center the human rights of persons directly affected by those policies. She advocates on behalf of The Advocates with policymakers, legislative staff, and relevant stakeholders. In addition to managing website functionality, she supervises and mentors interns. As the Training and Outreach Manager, she led strategy, instructional design, and evaluation of organization-wide online training initiatives and developed scalable infrastructure in collaboration with program directors, organizational partners, and government agencies. She also managed web-based learning systems and accessibility features, working with a lead developer. As program associate, Christina launched the current website and created the first trainings for The Advocates' Human Rights Training Initiative.

Christina is driven to pursue human rights work because she believes in the inherent dignity and equality of every individual and is committed to confronting injustice with action rather than being overwhelmed by it.

Christina entered the field from a humanities background. Before joining The Advocates' staff, she worked as an art museum curator, focusing on increasing representation in collections and programming. Her work included roles at the Weisman Art Museum, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, and the Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College.

She received her JD magna cum laude from Mitchell Hamline School of Law, her PhD in art history from the University of Michigan, and her BA in political economy from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Publications

"Control, Not Care: The Conflict Between Minnesota's Prenatal Substance Use Statutes and Reproductive Rights," Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2 (Winter 2026).