About Shana Ray

Shana recently started writing for the Examiner.com as the official Santa Rosa Vegetarian Food Examiner.

Shana Ray is a Digital Marketing + Social Relations Strategist and self proclaimed social media and cheese addict, and loves talking in the third person when writing bios. She has worked with top national brands, including Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Clos du Bois, Icon Wine Estates, Snapfish, Wacom Technology, Scharffen Berger Chocolate and Rodney Strong Vineyards.

In 2008, Shana started a freelance social media + PR + event planning marketing & consulting agency, which now goes by the name Shana Ray, Digital Marketing + Social Relations.

She helps Wine County brands promote themselves online by teaching classes with the Northern Sonoma County Wine Road, the Sonoma County Tourism Bureau and has consulted with brands such as the Winegrowers of Dry Creek Valley, Russian River Valley Winegrowers, Mrs. Grossman’s Stickers, Hewlett Packard, Rodney Strong Vineyards, Michel-Schlumberger Wine Estate, 101.7 The Fox, JS Makeup Artistry, Willi’s Wine Bar, Sift Cupcakes and Desserts, Amista Vineyards and Segehsio Family Vineyards, Sonoma County Restaurant Week and Sizzling Tandoor… To name a few.

Her background includes social media marketing, consulting, management, strategy for word of mouth and marketing campaigns and speaking, public relations for local and national businesses and event planning for everything from small wine events, to large seminars, to large tweetups for hundreds. 

In addition to being a Digital Marketing + Social Relations Strategist for her own social media marketing agency, she now works at Social Candy, a Social Media and Facebook Marketing company who creates custom Facebook pages, promotions, sweepstakes, contests, coupons, etc.

In 2009 she also worked on Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey’s online efforts, blogging, running her Facebook Page and conducted a cross country market research trip on the buying habits of Millennials, called Project Y-ine.

She is an active part of the Sonoma County community, spending time helping to promote and attend food/wine/music events throughout the Wine Country.She blogs about her adventures in food, wine and marketing here. Photos taken by Candice Caballero. Digital Marketing + Social Relations logo created by Marina Holshevnikoff.