ShanaRay.com

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

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

In 2008, she started a freelance social media + PR + event planning marketing & consulting agency.  Shana has helped Wine County brands promote themselves online by teaching classes at 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: a Cupcakery, Amista Vineyards and Segehsio Family Vineyards, Sonoma County Restaurant Week, Sizzling Tandoor, and Franco’s Ristorante… To name a few.

Her background includes social media marketing, consulting, management, strategy 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 running her own social media marketing agency, she now works at Democrasoft, a Santa Rosa tech and collaboration company which created Collaborize Classroom, a free online learning platform for teachers and students to incorporate online lesson plans and discussions in a blended learning environment.

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 County. She blogs about her adventures in food, wine and marketing here and on Funny by Accident. Photos taken by Candice Caballero.