Leslie Sanchez is an entrepreneur, strategist, and a former candidate on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.
Sanchez is the CEO of Impacto Group LLC, a Washington, DC-based strategic communications and market research firm that she founded in order to explore trends and measure opinions among Hispanics and women, which are segments of the U.S. population that have shown rapid gains in their influence and purchasing power.
After earning a journalism degree from The George Washington University, Sanchez became an aide to Congressman Henry Bonilla, the first Latino in Texas to be elected to a Republican House seat. Leslie also wrote a book titled Los Republicanos, which talks about the impact of the Latinos in the presidential election.