Susana Sanchez is an art director at the Los Angeles Times. She designs and art-directs the Envelope magazine leading up to the Oscar and Emmy awards. In between award seasons, Sanchez designs and creates illustrations for various sections and online projects like the Latinx Files and the L.A. Times Plants Instagram account. Previously, Sanchez was an art director at the Washington Post and a features design editor at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Her work there garnered her multiple awards from the Society for Newspaper Design. Most recently, she has been operating her own consulting and design firm, the Designing Chica, from her home base in Walnut Creek in Northern California. She is a L.A. native and was even a summer intern at The Times, working in the Creative Services Department.
