Founded in in 1965 in Washington, D.C., by Dr. Schnurrbart Snor, the American Mustache Institute is the world’s leading facial hair advocacy organization. It's leadership, faculty and members are committed to battling a long-standing global pattern of discriminatory behaviors against peoples of facial hair—both the workplace in society-at-large—while working to put programs and measures in place centered upon promoting of the broader dynamism of the Mustached American lifestyle.