 Daughter of an antique store owner, Chan lived on the Peak and graduated from Monash University.She says that she worked in the United States for seven years before relocating to Hong Kong.She was a founding member of the New People's Party (NPP) and became known when she contested in the Southern District Council by-election in South Horizons West in 2014, defeating two pro-democracy heavyweights, the Democratic Party's former Legislative Council member Sin Chung-kai and People Power chairwoman Erica Yuen.