Annie Sanchez is a business strategist, multidisciplinary leader, culture builder and care-centered change maker.

Most recently, Sanchez built and ran Mariposa Strategies, a management consulting company centering sensitive-identifying leaders, leaders of colors and non-conforming teams in their vital roles in society through strategic partnerships, advising and professional development. Here she advised hundreds of artists, movement builders, nonprofit and philanthropy leaders across the US to help them realize ambitious ideas.

She built a successful company from the ground up with a beloved national membership program, myriad marketing strategies and campaigns, leveraging digital and traditional media, and delivering transformative products and services for organizational change, team conflict, restorative care and personal growth.

Before that, she was Executive Director of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (now Groundworks New Mexico), New Mexico’s largest nonprofit capacity-building organization, where she drove business planning and the cultivation of strategic partnerships to support the organization’s next chapter. She worked closely with leaders in the nonprofit, philanthropy and government sectors to galvanize collective change in New Mexico.

Sanchez was co-founder of the statewide fundraising initiative, Giving Tuesday NM, and co-chair of the fundraising committee for Planned Parenthood of New York City’s Activist Council.

She currently serves as a culture advisor to Working Classroom. She previously served on the advisory board of Building Movement Project and as an advisor to artists and brick and mortar business owners through an entrepreneurial incubator with the City of Albuquerque.

She was raised in Santa Fe, pursued a BFA in art studio at the University of New Mexico, received a certificate in fundraising from New York University, has lived in LA, Brooklyn and Honolulu, and will be relocating in 2026 with her husband and cat.

She’s currently searching for an in-person role as a Senior Program Director or Chief of Staff in NYC, Seattle or the Bay Area with a mission-driven, creative team.