let me paint you the full picture of sophia fang.
I’m a startup marketer by origin, a creative artist by nature, and a disability advocate by purpose—all towards my personal mission to build vibrancy in my community.
As a chronic migraine patient of 10+ years, I’m the founder of Peachy Day, an integrative migraine care app on a mission to support the 1 in 6 Americans living with headache and migraine. I’m a recent MBA grad of Stanford Graduate School of Business, where I was a ROMBA Fellow, SIF Prize winner, IDIF Fellow, and co-founder of the Disability & Caregiving Community. Previously, I was the Head of Marketing at Honeycomb Credit, where I built marketing from pre-revenue to $1M ARR and drove $14M+ in local investments to small businesses across the country.
At night, I moonlight as a professional mural artist. I find joy in beautifying public spaces in my Seattle hometown and the Rust Belt. My murals combine whimsy and community joy to celebrate small businesses, immigrant placemaking, food diasporas, and nature ecologies.
I did my undergrad at Pomona College, where I double majored in Economics & Digital Media Studies. At Pomona, I was the founding Director of Marketing of Health Bridges, a nonprofit assisting immigrant patients with hospital language translations.
Fun fact: I used to be #tumblrfamous! In high school, I founded a high fashion blog with 50,000+ followers.
press
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Pittsburgh startups pitch investors at Innovation Works conference” (2025)
Technical.ly, “Pittsburgh startup Peachy Day gears up to launch an AI-powered migraine tracking app” (2025)
Pittsburgh Business Times, “Innovation Works’ AlphaLab unveils first unified cohort” (2025)
Technical.ly, “Techstars lets early-stage startups show off in Baltimore” (2024)
Stanford University, “The Disability and Caregiving Community at Stanford GSB“ (2024)
Poets & Quants, “New Stanford MBA Club Envisions A World Accessible To All” (2024)
Talking Head Pain Podcast, “Championing Change: A Conversation with Migraine Advocates at Headache on the Hill“ (2024)
Poets & Quants, “‘There’s Room For Everyone’: How MBAs at an Elite Business School Celebrate Pride Month” (2023)
non-disclosure, “Did You Eat Yet? A Love Letter to Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs” (2023)
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, “KST Presents: Neighbor to Neighbor“ (2023)
non-disclosure, “Life with migraines: Most people can’t tell that I have a disability.” (2023)
Paradigm Haus, “Utopia in Game Design” (2022)
NW Asian Weekly, “Gallery 110 competition spotlights emerging BIPOC artists“ (2022)
Pittsburgh Business Times, “30 Under 30: Meet Sophia Fang, Honeycomb Credit“ (2022) (No paywall)
Pittsburgh Business Times, “Meet the First Group of 30 Under 30 Winners“ (2022)
Pittsburgh Foundation, “Exposure Artists Program: About the Awardees” (2022)
One Mic Stand Podcast, “Sophia Fang - 2021 Young ATHENA Recipient”(2021)
Marketing Pittsburgh Podcast, “Invest Locally with Sophia Fang“ (2021)
love, Pittsburgh, “Maker We Love: Sophia Fang Art” (2021)
Pittsburgh City Paper, “Sophia Fang supports small businesses with postcard project, Painting Main“ (2020)
The Incline, “Supporting local small businesses is as easy as buying a postcard“ (2020)
Marketers in PJs, “Episode 04: Small Business Marketing Tips and Strategies That Work“ (2020)
Ascender PGH, “Webinar Recap: How to market and do business online“ (2020)
Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership, “CAPAL Intern Spotlight Sophia Fang ‘16“ (2016)
public art
Kennewick High School Mural, WA State Arts Commission, WA (2023-In Progress)
dragon froot almanac, 4Culture Individual Project, King County, WA (2023-In Progress)
On the Fence, City of Edmonds, Edmonds, WA (2022)
Did You Eat Yet? Mural, Spice Bridge x City of Tukwila, Tukwila, WA (2022)
Art Cottage Residency, City of Shoreline x 4Culture, Shoreline, WA (2022)
10 Year Anniversary Mural, Ascender PGH, Pittsburgh, PA (2022)
Art in Parks Storyteller Program, City of Pittsburgh & Casey Droege Cultural Productions, Pittsburgh, PA (2021-2022)
Redmond Lights 2021, City of Redmond, Redmond, WA (2021)
Rotunda Art Fence, Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (2021)
Utility Box Art, City of Auburn x Spice Bridge, Auburn, WA (2021-2028)
Utility Box Art, City of Tukwila, Tukwila, WA (2021-2028)
Storefront Window Display, BOOM Concepts, Pittsburgh, PA (2021)
WA State ArtsWA Public Artist Roster (2021-2025)
City of Seattle Public Art Roster (2024-2026)
awards + honors
Stanford Impact Founders Prize, Stanford GSB (2024)
Impact Design Immersion Fellowship, Stanford GSB (2023)
Reaching Out MBA Fellow (ROMBA), Stanford GSB (2022-2024)
30 Under 30 Winner, Pittsburgh Business Times (2022)
Exposure Artists Program First-Time Grantee Award, The Pittsburgh Foundation & Opportunity Fund (2022)
Emerging Artist Competition Finalist, Gallery 110 (2022)
ATHENA Young Professional Award, Pittsburgh Technology Council (2021)
Inscape Arts Artist-in-Residence (2021)
Awesome Foundation Pittsburgh Project of the Month Grant (2021)
Entrepreneurship Fellow, Venture For America (2018-2020)
art exhibitions
Eight Years of Inscape AiR, ARTS at King Street Station, Seattle, WA (2025)
Emerging Artist Competition Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA (2022)
Lantern Festival, ShoreLake Arts, Shoreline, WA (2022)
Food Justice in Appalachia, West Virginia University Libraries & Food Justice Lab, Morgantown, WV (2021-2022)
Re:Model, LCC Theatre Company, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (2021)
2021 Pittsburgh Virtual Fringe, Pittsburgh Fringe, Pittsburgh, PA (2021)
Etna Art Tour, Roadkill Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (2020)
Art All Night Online, Art All Night, Pittsburgh, PA (2020, 2021)
Tiny Films: Seeing Double, CDCP Project Space, Pittsburgh, PA (2020)
20 Under 20, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA (2014)
speaking
“Personal Branding 101”, Dietrich College of Humanities + Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
“Branding & Marketing Social Enterprises”, BNY Mellon UpPrize Social Innovation Challenge
“Intro to Persona Development”, New Jersey Innovation Institute, New Jersey Institute of Technology
“Service Marketing MBA Case”, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
“Helping Women and Girls Succeed through Mentoring”, Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship, Chatham University
“CMO Insights: Marketing Expert Panel”, Pittsburgh Technology Council
“You’re a Work of Art: Building Your Personal Brand as an Artist of Color”, ACES 2022: Artists of Color Expo & Symposium
“Building a Purpose-First Brand”, Generator Marketing Conference 2021
“Pandemic Pivots: Marketing When Business Isn’t As Usual”, WITcon 2020 - National Women in Tech Conference
“Bite-sized Marketing Strategies”, AlphaLab + AlphaLab Gear
“How to Market and Do Business Online”, Ascender PGH
“Crafting Subscribe-Worthy Newsletters”, Ascender PGH