Andra M. Wisian has worked in media production for twenty-six years serving as a television journalist, news anchor, producer, writer and executive producer.

After covering news for six years at an ABC affiliate in South Texas, Wisian moved into video production in the travel and tourism industry. For three years she served as a producer and writer on location, escorting production crews to destinations across the globe from the Caribbean to Europe to Asia. Her writing and producing was recognized by several video and film festival awards.

Wisian also obtained global experience in business development, functioning as an executive producer and a media consultant for three years to travel and tourism clients who sought to promote their destinations to the American market.

After settling in San Antonio, Wisian worked as a producer/director for United Services Automobile Association in Media Services, which supports the company-wide effort to serve military members and their families. Several of Wisian’s productions earned noted awards from the communications industry.

In 1998 Wisian teamed up with Director Roger Castillo to form Fawn Mountain Creative Media, a creative media and production company. Fawn Mountain was selected as the only Texas company by the University of Vermont’s Office of Health Promotion Research to produce anti-smoking commercials targeted at youth.

Wisian sold her interest in Fawn Mountain in 2001 and established Manahuilla Media Company, a boutique-advertising agency based in the Texas Hill Country. Manahuilla offers comprehensive advertising services including TV spot & video production, web design, brochures and print ads as well as logos and graphic design.

Personal
A seventh generation Texan and descendant of an Old Three Hundred family as well as a descendant of Texas patriot, Zadock Woods, Andra Wisian is very much a Texan at heart. Since 1992, Andra has been married to Kirby Wisian, a 1980 graduate of TAMU and currently an Assistant Vice President and P&C Actuary for USAA. They have two sons, ages 12 and 6 and live near Boerne in Kendall County.

Andra serves as Vice President and Co-Manager of the Kendall County 4-H Horse Club as well as Chair of Operation Under Cover, a campaign to build the Ag Outdoor Learning & Equestrian Center. She is Treasurer for the Youth of the Hill Country Horse Club, a committee member for the Ag Heritage Museum’s Chuck Wagon & Western Heritage Gathering and a member of the Boerne Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of American Quarter Horse Association, Texas Quarter Horse Association, Alamo Quarter Horse Breeders Association and the Guadalupe Quarter Horse Breeders Association. The Wisians are members of St. John Lutheran Church, the Kendall County Fair Association and Texas Farm Bureau.