Yovanka Sanchez

Yovanka Sanchez is a Latin media personality, entrepreneur, producer, storyteller, and activist. She is the founder of La Mariposa Films a media brand anchored in storytelling, creating, developing content that celebrates women and puts them at the center of every story and behind the camera. Her brand is also about empowering female and shinning a light on heroines. With her production studio she has collaborated with many great partners like Fedex, WeWork, Babson College, NBC, Hearts Television, CNN and many more.

Also, Sanchez is a Latina media expert with more than twenty years of knowledge and experience in front and behind the cameras. Sanchez began her career in her native Mexico with giant Latin America multi mass media company Televisa. She not only produced and was the DJ for a music TV show an MTV Mexican version, but Sanchez was also the television host for many special music award and beauty shows. In 2002, she joined she joined Latin media giant Telemundo, the American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal. Here Sanchez not only created, produced, and hosted exclusive special interviews, Barbara Walters style with Latin celebrities but also developed other shows for the network focus on women.

Sanchez who is fluent in Spanish, English, French and Italian, has travelled and lived around the globe because of her father's diplomatic career. She combine’s her own unique upbringing and global perspectives to her creative projects & productions, speeches, and storytelling workshops.

Her work has helped many women and young girls understand how to create with Sanchez’s exclusive story structure the "heroine" story for their businesses, life or mission. Sanchez is not only a big activist for women causes but also for creating a new earth and because of this she recently became an Ambassador for the Aptera Solar Car.