Staff Bios

  • Agency Principal, Marion Sanchez
  • Community Outreach Special Consultant, John Hernández
  • Public Relations Specialist, Ashley Goode
Marion Sanchez, Agency Principal:

Marion’s principal responsibilities include managing and marketing Estilo Communications; account supervision; developing marketing strategies and plans; coordinating public relations and advertising campaigns; and planning special events. All clients receive personal attention as she supervises and approves all account work including public relations, media planning and purchasing, creative concepts and technical production.She has more than fifteen years of communications experience including creative design, public relations, marketing, community outreach and special event planning.Marion has an Associate’s Degree in Applied Science and attended the Institute for Participatory Management and Planning.

Affiliations:

  • Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors
  • Austin Children’s Museum, Board of Directors
  • City of Austin Economic Development Commission
  • Austin Area Urban League, Board of Directors
  • Heritage Society of Austin, Board of Directors
  • Austin Downtown Commissioner
  • Hispanic Women’s Network of Texas, member
  • Capital City Chamber of Commerce, member
  • Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, member
  • Austin Community Television, past Secretary of the Board
  • Seton East Advisory Board
  • “Believe in Me” Advisory Board
  • East Austin Rotary
  • Capital Area American Heart Association, Board of Directors

Ashley Goode, Public Relations Specialist:

Ashley Goode serves as the Public Relations Specialist at Estilo Communications. She helps clients communicate directly to their target markets through press releases, newsletters, feature stories, social media and various other forms of communication.

Ashley worked in the public relations department at Covenant Health System where she wrote several press releases that were published in newspapers in the Lubbock area and created newsletters that were distributed to hospital employees. She worked as a copy editor writing Web site content and maintaining social media outlets for a start-up Internet company called HourVille. Ashley has also served as an account executive in both community outreach and business development campaigns where her responsibilities included: creating timelines and budgets, meeting critical deadlines, writing project proposals, conducting research, and communicating key messages to the community.

Ashley graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from Texas Tech University.