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Meet The Team
Fab Hatters is a proud female, minority-owned small business run by 2 sisters.
Nancy "Fang"
Co-founder and Head Designer
N. Fang studied genetics at UCLA and is currently a Data Analytics student and a former medical student.
While backpacking overseas, Fang would often put souvenirs and trinkets on her hats, eliciting positive responses from passersby. Once she returned to the states she was encouraged to sell hats online.
A formally visually-impaired designer, she self-taught herself millinery & costuming techniques as she waited for technology to advance and save her vision. Her visual issues caused her to come up with bold and innovative techniques and designs, not seen elsewhere. In 2014, she began Fab Hatters and hasn't looked back since.
In 2019, using the money earned from her successful business, she underwent a series of experimental surgeries that restored her vision. With her sight restored, she advanced & improved upon her technical skills, learning from milinery teachers around the world as well as costuming experts like the team behind Yo Gabba Gabba.
In her spare time, she enjoys going to art shows, learning data analytics, roller skating, sculpting, volunteering for the LA opera and local hospitals, and working out.
Grace
Co-founder and Consultant
Grace is a Senior User Researcher at Medidata and a former Adjunct Professor at the New York Institute of Technology. Before joining Medidata, she worked at Crunchbase and Liberty Mutual, as well as with under-resourced communities in Los Angeles and the Bronx and at the Tufts Spatial Cognition Lab, where she studied origami and paper engineering.
She studied anthropology and neuroscience at Dartmouth College and earned a master’s degree in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley University. In other words, she spends a lot of time thinking about how people think, which comes in surprisingly handy when designing things that people actually want to wear.
When she isn’t making hat designs, working on the Fab Hatters website, giving talks, or attending tech meetups, Grace likes to spend as much time outdoors as possible. She’s into rock climbing, hiking, traveling, and generally finding excuses to go somewhere interesting. She can frequently be spotted on her adventures wearing one of our signature Banana Headbands—because apparently climbing mountains is better with fruit on your head.
Follow her banana adventures on Instagram at @hikingisbananas.
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