Leslie Sanchez

About the Author

Leslie Sanchez is a Republican strategist and former adviser to President George W. Bush, a frequent columnist and part of CNN’s award-winning team that covered the 2008 election. She is the author of You've Come a Long Way, Maybe. In 2003 she founded Impacto Group LLC, which specializes in defining social and economic trends affecting women and the emerging U.S. Hispanic community. Sanchez's analysis has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, as well as all the networks and on such shows as NBC's "Nightly News," the "Today" show and PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer.