Chiang was the director of the Chinatown-based Asian American arts organization,
Basement Workshop, in
New York City from 1975 to 1986. Later, Chiang was active at the
Henry Street Settlement on the
Lower East Side, Project Reach, a program working with youth in New York City's Chinatown, and Poets and Writers. She was also involved in student-led protests advocating for better Asian American Studies courses at New York colleges. Her poetry focused on her identity as a Chinese-American, and explored the discrimination she faced through a lens of
intersectionality. ==References==