Chingaipe is the writer, producer, and presenter of the critically acclaimed SBS documentary Our African Roots, which has won several awards in Australia and overseas; Our African Roots marked the first time on Australian television that an African-Australian journalist and author has interrogated the nation’s colonial history.

Her nonfiction book, Black Convicts: How slavery shaped colonised Australia, is forthcoming with Scribner Australia.

Chingaipe is the founder of Behind The Screens, an annual program supported by VicScreen, aimed at increasing the representation of people historically excluded from the Australian film industry.