Chang Ye

Chang Ye’s visionary specialiy is fashionable accessories, wholeheartedly embracing the "people oriented" philosophy in her designs. Her creations are deeply rooted in understanding human needs. She is widely acknowledged as a designer who combines empathy with ambition, continuously striving to create a meaningful impact through her innovative designs.

Chicago Summer Opera                                                                          Chicago, U.S.A. Jun. 2023 - Aug. 2023 

Costume Intern 

• Assisting in costume preparation, creating inspirational mood boards, and making strategic purchases within a limited budget.
• Designed and crafted period-specific garments to meet artistic requirements. Resulted in a remarkable turnout of hundreds of enthusiastic audience members.

Obioma Fashion                                                                                        Chicago, U.S.A.  May 2023 - Jun. 2023

Social Media Internship

• Assisted in managing Myobioma's social media accounts (including YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest), skillfully curating engaging content and editing captivating videos. Achieved an impressive 10% increase in followers within just one month.

University of Chicago Windmill Theatre                                                 Chicago, U.S.A. Apr. 2023 - May 2023

Costume Manager

• Led and inspired a team in curating mood boards, crafting visionary budgets, and sourcing extraordinary garments.
• Worked as a costume specialist to create the unconventional costume, which was well received by more than 300 audience members and sparked a social media buzz among influential bloggers.

SUMEC GROUP CORPORATION                                                                     Wuxi, China.  Nov.- Dec. 2022

• Responsible for patternmaking for the Etonnkid brand
• Familiar with the factory production processes and the operation mode of hanging line

New Oriental Education Group                                                                               Yangzhou, China.  July 2021 

• Teaching Assistant for the ISC Summer Education Camp
• Offering quick help and class advice for more than 500 students
• Facilitating the communication between foreign teachers and student participants
• Participating in planning and hosting the closing ceremony

SAIC Chinese Students and Scholars Association(CSSA)                                                       November, 2020

Member of the Activities Department

• Participating in the 2020 campaign “After the epidemic” as a core member
• Providing comforting and relieving solutions to international students’ emotional turmoils caused by the pandemic

Prof. Sarah Zhou Rosengard’s Environmental protection project                                                 Oct 16, 2022

• Cleaning Chicago North Avenue beaches
• Together with Environmental Protection Agency, measuring the river pollution in Little Calumet River& Beaubien River and checking out invasive species, )

Government of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province                                                                            Aug 10, 2021

• Pandemic Volunteer
• Worked with neighborhood committees to ensure residents secure food and daily-life essentials
• Carrying out mass COVID-19 testings

Individual Project: Hearing Aid as Decoration                                                     Chicago, U.S.A. 2022-present

• Redefining and designing hearing aids as everyday accessories for both physically challenged and unchallenged groups
• Deshaming the disability and advocating the familiarization of adaptive fashion to empower people with disabilities and to promote disability inclusion/equality

Black Death and Spatial/Architectural Design                                                                   Chicago, U.S.A.  2021

• Consider housing with more functions in limited space
• Drawing inspiration from past Black Death Plague studies on the impact of outbreaks on housing to provide more hygienic living conditions

Design for the Pandemic                                                                                                      Chicago, U.S.A. 2020

• Design innovations in devices that are relevant to people’s daily lives, such as health care, public services, food services, technology, education, hospitality, architecture, legal issues under the impact of covid-19