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Columbia Professor and Program Director (M.S. in Technology Management). Board Chair at…
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Anti-AAPI Hate and Our Long COVID Recovery Ahead
Anti-AAPI Hate and Our Long COVID Recovery Ahead
By Art Chang (he/him)
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Teachers have stepped up during the pandemic. They deserve a Mayor who steps up, too.
Teachers have stepped up during the pandemic. They deserve a Mayor who steps up, too.
By Art Chang (he/him)
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FOUNDER MODE ⚡ "In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. Till now most people even in Silicon Valley…
FOUNDER MODE ⚡ "In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. Till now most people even in Silicon Valley…
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Last month I had the opportunity to travel to the Philippines with Brad Baumoel to meet employees at our Cebu and Manila offices. Cebu, known as…
Last month I had the opportunity to travel to the Philippines with Brad Baumoel to meet employees at our Cebu and Manila offices. Cebu, known as…
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The past four years have seen an exurban boom, with the "exurban rings" around major cities seeing the fastest growth. But how far is too far?…
The past four years have seen an exurban boom, with the "exurban rings" around major cities seeing the fastest growth. But how far is too far?…
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Experience
Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Board Member
Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
- Present 2 years 10 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
I joined the Board to help CACF build a unified Asian American community too powerful to ignore through legislative successes and coalition-building with over 60 AAPI community-based organizations as partners.
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President
Sterling Place Block Association
- Present 1 year 9 months
SPBA is a hyper-local community organization that advances the interests of our diverse, 1,000-resident block in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. We seek to build bridges with our neighboring communities in central Brooklyn.
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Advisor
Trestle Collaborative
- Present 2 years
Trestle Collaborative is a nonprofit creating a future where technology amplifies people-powered movements for democracy, equity and justice. Trestle is the only organization of its kind. Trestle bridges the lack of tech talent in the progressive space with a paid talent model & focus on recruiting and retaining more diverse senior technologists to the movement. Founded by technology-for-good leaders Mollie Ruskin, Sunil Sadasivan, and Xena Ni, Trestle has partnered with over 50 movement…
Trestle Collaborative is a nonprofit creating a future where technology amplifies people-powered movements for democracy, equity and justice. Trestle is the only organization of its kind. Trestle bridges the lack of tech talent in the progressive space with a paid talent model & focus on recruiting and retaining more diverse senior technologists to the movement. Founded by technology-for-good leaders Mollie Ruskin, Sunil Sadasivan, and Xena Ni, Trestle has partnered with over 50 movement organizations, progressive tech companies, campaigns & committees, and funders, including Movement Voter Project, the Sunrise Movement, Peoples’ Action, The Movement Cooperative, Reproductive Equity Now, Power the Polls, BallotReady, Vote.org and the Lawyers Committee on Civil and Human Rights.
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Advisory Board Member
OSET Institute, Inc.
- Present 3 years 2 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
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Chair, School Leadership Team
Brooklyn Technical High School
- Present 6 years 1 month
Education
Brooklyn Tech is one of New York City's renowned Specialized High Schools. BTHS is the largest high school in the United States by number of students and square footage, with over 6,000 students on 7 floors on about 2/3 of one city block. Over 60% of students qualify for free lunch and the majority are multi-lingual immigrants. Many will become the first in their families to attend college.
The SLT is a collaborative partnership between the school administration, faculty, parents and…Brooklyn Tech is one of New York City's renowned Specialized High Schools. BTHS is the largest high school in the United States by number of students and square footage, with over 6,000 students on 7 floors on about 2/3 of one city block. Over 60% of students qualify for free lunch and the majority are multi-lingual immigrants. Many will become the first in their families to attend college.
The SLT is a collaborative partnership between the school administration, faculty, parents and students that helps set the strategic priorities and activities for the school. -
Digital Advisory Group member and Working Group on Governance (for Fourth Regional Plan)
Regional Plan Association
- 4 years
Economic Empowerment
Since its inception nearly a century ago, RPA has conducted groundbreaking research on issues of land use, transportation, the environment, economic development, and opportunity. It has also led advocacy campaigns to foster a thriving, diverse, and environmentally sustainable region, helping local communities address their most pressing challenges.
Since the 1920s, RPA has developed groundbreaking long-range plans to guide the growth of the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan…Since its inception nearly a century ago, RPA has conducted groundbreaking research on issues of land use, transportation, the environment, economic development, and opportunity. It has also led advocacy campaigns to foster a thriving, diverse, and environmentally sustainable region, helping local communities address their most pressing challenges.
Since the 1920s, RPA has developed groundbreaking long-range plans to guide the growth of the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan area.
The Fourth Regional Plan looks ahead to the next generation. If we succeed in implementing the vision and recommendations outlined in the Fourth Regional Plan, the region will be more equitable, healthy, sustainable, and prosperous. -
Board Member
New York City Campaign Finance Board
- 8 years 8 months
Politics
The New York City Campaign Finance Board works to reduce the power of special interests in municipal elections by administering the nation's leading public financing program for candidates in municipal elections. The Board governs the works of the staff and serves as an adjudicatory body for disputes between candidates and staff.
Observing the complex challenges in audit reviews of credit card contributions to candidates motivated the Board to approve the NYC Votes project. Tipping Point…The New York City Campaign Finance Board works to reduce the power of special interests in municipal elections by administering the nation's leading public financing program for candidates in municipal elections. The Board governs the works of the staff and serves as an adjudicatory body for disputes between candidates and staff.
Observing the complex challenges in audit reviews of credit card contributions to candidates motivated the Board to approve the NYC Votes project. Tipping Point Partners, Pivotal, and Method partnered with the CFB on a pro bono basis to use technology to enhance the connections between candidates and voters and to remove friction between candidates and regulators. The software we created formed the foundation of what is now NYCVotes.org and Voting.NYC. -
Chair
New York City Voter Assistance Advisory Committee
- 5 years
Civil Rights and Social Action
VAAC’s mandate is to re-invigorate civic engagement with municipal elections by improving the voting experience. VAAC convenes the only public meeting of ordinary New Yorkers and NYC elected and appointed officials responsible for voting. VAAC operates under the NYC Campaign Finance Board.
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Co-Founder
CUNY TAP (Technology Apprenticeship Program)
- 2 years
Education
CUNY TAP selects 20 students from the 500,000 students in the City University of New York for a competitive, one-year program that bridges traditional computer science education with the needs of the NYC tech community. TAP is taught and advised by senior technologists drawn from NYC startups, who then provide apprenticeship and employment opportunities.
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Expert Advisor
Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship at NYU
- 4 years
Civil Rights and Social Action
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Member Board Of Directors
Brooklyn Public Library
- 3 years
Education
BPL would be the 8th largest public library system in the U.S., 80 branches, no more than 1/2 mile of every Brooklyn resident. Huge opportunity to provide physical and community platform for digital literacy.
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Member Board Of Directors
Safe Horizon
- 8 years
Social Services
Safe Horizon is the largest non-profit in the U.S. focused on victims of domestic violence and child abuse and one of the first to adopt a model of integrated services.
Publications
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Epic 3 of my Pivotal odyssey starts today
Medium.com
Today begins Epic 3, in which I will apply lessons from my Pivotal decade to build solutions for social good. Epic 2 ended on March 17, 2017, my last day as a Pivotal employee. I wrote about Epic 1 here.
I’m so grateful to Rob, Edward, Siobhan, Bill and Andrew for embracing my exploration inside Pivotal, then for gently closing the door at the right time. -
City Hall Spurns Technology That Could Save New York's Abused Children
Crain's New York Business
The preventable death of a child from abuse or neglect is a potent symbol of government failure. But it’s a failure of leadership when caseworkers are blamed despite their not having proven and relatively low-cost technology that could have helped save that child.
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Here's How NY Protects Incumbents from Citizen and How to Change That
The Daily Beast
This month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a series of commendable proposals to modernize the state’s voting system. His “Democracy Project” would “remove unnecessary barriers that prevent participation in elections” by opening voting sites for more than one day, creating an automatic voter registration system and permitting voter registration on Election Day. This makes for good political theater, since there is little chance the state legislature will do the right thing.
New…This month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a series of commendable proposals to modernize the state’s voting system. His “Democracy Project” would “remove unnecessary barriers that prevent participation in elections” by opening voting sites for more than one day, creating an automatic voter registration system and permitting voter registration on Election Day. This makes for good political theater, since there is little chance the state legislature will do the right thing.
New York State ranks an abysmal 45th in America in voter participation, largely because our system is broken beyond repair and voters know it. It’s not that people don’t want to vote. A Gordian knot of pervasive and insidious problems have been written into laws and regulation that will require systemic reform at the state level. -
A Conversation about Product: Product Owner-Product Manager
Pivotal "Built to Adapt"
The beating heart of a digital company is its product organization.
For tech startups, the company is indistinguishable from its product since the organization is built around that product from Day One. Hyper-growth startups find success a double-edged sword: they must prevent bursting at the seams while continually transforming a product organization to stay one step ahead of double-digit growth.
Legacy enterprises start at the other end of the spectrum. Already large…The beating heart of a digital company is its product organization.
For tech startups, the company is indistinguishable from its product since the organization is built around that product from Day One. Hyper-growth startups find success a double-edged sword: they must prevent bursting at the seams while continually transforming a product organization to stay one step ahead of double-digit growth.
Legacy enterprises start at the other end of the spectrum. Already large, enterprises are challenged with the transformation of heavy IT organizations into the nimble hearts of living digital businesses. Their struggle is to become more like startups: to go from massive projects that support operations to smaller products that are the operations.
But both seek the same end goal through digital transformation: to build coherent product organizations that propel the business forward. -
The NFL's Problems Don't End Because the Season Did
The Daily Beast
Super Bowl, domestic violence and technology.
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Art Chang: Should You Work at a Startup?
WSJ: The Accelerators Blog
If you’re the right person, you don’t think of yourself as “talent;” you only think about stretching your capabilities to achieve a worthy mission.
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Alum Spotlight: Arthur C. Chang
Yale WGSS Newsletter
"I was taught that the “personal is political”. If change is a measure of success, then the political is by necessity technological. Women’s Studies has equipped me to synthesize social dynamics at scale, using technology to create tools that break down the silos that divide people and hinder social and economic progress."
Projects
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NYC Votes
Tipping Point Partners, Pivotal and Method are proud to have played a central role in helping the NYC Campaign Finance Board (CFB) create the NYC Votes app, a first-in-the-nation mobile application to help campaigns collect campaign contributions through their smart phones.
With NYC Votes, the CFB gains cutting-edge technology to further CFB'S mission to increase voter participation and strengthen the role of small contributors in New York City election campaigns.
The project…Tipping Point Partners, Pivotal and Method are proud to have played a central role in helping the NYC Campaign Finance Board (CFB) create the NYC Votes app, a first-in-the-nation mobile application to help campaigns collect campaign contributions through their smart phones.
With NYC Votes, the CFB gains cutting-edge technology to further CFB'S mission to increase voter participation and strengthen the role of small contributors in New York City election campaigns.
The project applies 21st century convenience and interactivity to the relationship between voters and candidates. It is a simple idea that has the potential to permanently transform the way voters interact with their government.
NYC Votes launched in 2013 and in the 2017 elections has processed over 60% of small dollar contributions.
NYC Votes was designed by Method and built by Pivotal Labs. NYC Votes will be open-sourced, in the hope that other government can apply the technologies created here to increase voter engagement in their own jurisdictions.Other creatorsSee project -
Tipping Point Capital Advisors
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Tipping Point Capital Advisors helped startups attract capital, operating as a registered broker-dealer. I served as Principal, FinOp Principal and Chief Compliance Officer.
Honors & Awards
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Democracy in Action Award
Common Cause
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Community Leadership Award
Citizens Union
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National Merit Scholar
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