Leslie Sanchez (born 1971, Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American author, political pundit affiliated with the Republican Party, and founder/CEO of Impacto Group LLC, a Washington, D.C.–based market research and consulting firm.

[2] Sanchez's parents separated at age 15 and she moved with her mother to an apartment in Sugar Land, a suburb in the Houston metropolitan area.

After college, Sanchez held several public relations and marketing positions in the Capitol and worked with the staff of House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

[8] In 2001, outgoing RNC chairman Jim Nicholson credited Sanchez, the Committee's Hispanic-voter liaison director, for her role in that effort.

[9] On May 29, 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Sanchez executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.

Sanchez created a grassroots alliance of 20,000 students, parents, and educators nationwide, and assembled a strategic coalition of 30 Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and government agencies.

[11][12][13] Around this time, she entered the MBA program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Professional Studies in Business and Education (now extant).

Pollster Tarrance joined her as head of research and development for Impacto Strategies, a division of the Group, and chairman of its board of advisors.

In 2004, the Independent Women's Forum commissioned a psycholinguistic survey of Hispanic and Caucasian female voters that is considered seminal in the field.

[15] Sanchez has written multiple editorials, opinion pieces, and other articles for various publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and U.S. News & World Report.

In it, Sanchez makes the argument that since most Hispanics share core beliefs with the Republican Party (GOP) and represent the fastest growing minority, they should garner more attention.

"[16][17] Sanchez's second book, You've Come a Long Way, Maybe: Michelle, Sarah, Hillary and the Shaping of the New American Woman, was released in October 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St Martin's Press.