台北美國學校
Chang was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, to a Chinese Filipino father and a White American mother. She attended Taipei American School and is fluent in Mandarin. At the age of 17, she moved to the United States to study theatre and film at the University of Kansas in her mother's home state of Kansas. Later, she moved to Seattle, Washington where she graduated from the University of Washington. After graduation, she got her first acting role in "Naomi's Road" at the Children's theatre in Seattle. and then appeared in an off-Broadway play by Tina Landau.