Org Strategist, Producer, Artist

Expertise in nonprofits and small business with an emphasis on culture-building, leadership development, and operations.

In 2018, Sanchez founded Mariposa Strategies, an organizational and leadership development company centering justice-oriented leaders, people of color, and non-conforming teams in their vital roles in society through strategic thought partnership, coaching, and community-building. Here she’s advised hundreds of artists, movement builders, nonprofit, and philanthropy leaders across the US to help them realize ambitious ideas.

Sanchez built a successful company from the ground up with transformative services at the intersection of Spirit and spreadsheets. Serving organizations, individuals, and beloved community, she steers business development, operations, marketing and communications, and ecosystem building.

Before that, she was Director of New Mexico’s largest nonprofit capacity-building organization, the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (now Groundworks New Mexico), where she led business planning, strategic marketing campaigns, and cultivated 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.

Earlier in her career, Sanchez learned from top restauranteurs in NYC, including Danny Meyer and Drew Nieporent. She managed vibrant restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and also privately consulted front of house operations.

Sanchez’s background in fundraising led to co-founding the statewide fundraising initiative, Giving Tuesday NM, and co-chairing fundraising for Planned Parenthood of New York City’s Activist Council.

She’s served on the advisory board of Building Movement Project, as an advisor to artists and business owners through initiatives with the City of Albuquerque’s Arts & Culture Department, worked with Roanhorse Consulting, coached leaders at Native Women Lead, Native Americans in Philanthropy, and Alliance for Justice, among others.

Presently, she serves as a right-hand advisor on organizational health, operations, and culture to movement-based arts and climate teams.

Raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she is a life-long learner who studied art studio at University of New Mexico and fundraising at New York University.

Annie currently lives in New Mexico and will be relocating to NYC in 2027.