Rachel Eva Goslins (born July 23, 1969) is an American arts
administrator and documentary film director and producer. In August
2016, she was appointed Director of the Smithsonian's Arts and
Industries Museum. She was previously head of the President’s
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.Goslins was Executive
Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, an
advisory committee to the White House on cultural policy. President
Obama appointed her to this position in 2009. In this capacity, she
works closely with the White House, senior government officials,
prominent artists, philanthropists and entrepreneurs and the
country’s leading cultural institutions to advance and support the
arts and humanities in America and abroad. Under her management, the
organization more than doubled its budget and programmatic activities,
raised over $10M in public-private partnerships to support the arts,
and launched several major new initiatives, including a partnership
with the US Department of Education and the Ford Foundation to bring
arts education to a group of the country’s lowest-performing
elementary schools, and a program with the Smithsonian Institution,
UNESCO and the U.S. Department of State to rescue and preserve Haitian
cultural artifacts in the wake of the 2009 hurricane. She stepped down
as Executive Director in 2015.Her feature documentary, Bama Girl
premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival and
later broadcast on the Independent Film Channel (IFC). It is the story
of a "black woman at the University of Alabama who runs for 2005
Homecoming Queen, going up against a century of ingrained racial
segregation, internal black politics, and The Machine, a secret
coalition of traditionally white fraternities and sororities formed in
1914. She has worked on productions for the Public Broadcasting
Service (PBS), the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel
(Nat Geo), and History, and was the Director of the Independent
Digital Distribution Lab, a joint PBS/ITVS project. Her most recent
film was Besa: The Promise, an award-winning feature documentary about
Albanian Muslims who saved Jews during World War II.Prior to her arts
career, Rachel was an international copyright attorney in the office
of Policy and International Affairs in the U.S. Copyright Office,
where she had responsibility for negotiating and drafting sections of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and represented the
Copyright Office at UNESCO, the World Intellectual Property
Organization and the World Trade Organization. She began her career as
a litigator for the law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. In 2012 she
was awarded a Henry Crown Fellowship at the Aspen Institute.
administrator and documentary film director and producer. In August
2016, she was appointed Director of the Smithsonian's Arts and
Industries Museum. She was previously head of the President’s
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.Goslins was Executive
Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, an
advisory committee to the White House on cultural policy. President
Obama appointed her to this position in 2009. In this capacity, she
works closely with the White House, senior government officials,
prominent artists, philanthropists and entrepreneurs and the
country’s leading cultural institutions to advance and support the
arts and humanities in America and abroad. Under her management, the
organization more than doubled its budget and programmatic activities,
raised over $10M in public-private partnerships to support the arts,
and launched several major new initiatives, including a partnership
with the US Department of Education and the Ford Foundation to bring
arts education to a group of the country’s lowest-performing
elementary schools, and a program with the Smithsonian Institution,
UNESCO and the U.S. Department of State to rescue and preserve Haitian
cultural artifacts in the wake of the 2009 hurricane. She stepped down
as Executive Director in 2015.Her feature documentary, Bama Girl
premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival and
later broadcast on the Independent Film Channel (IFC). It is the story
of a "black woman at the University of Alabama who runs for 2005
Homecoming Queen, going up against a century of ingrained racial
segregation, internal black politics, and The Machine, a secret
coalition of traditionally white fraternities and sororities formed in
1914. She has worked on productions for the Public Broadcasting
Service (PBS), the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel
(Nat Geo), and History, and was the Director of the Independent
Digital Distribution Lab, a joint PBS/ITVS project. Her most recent
film was Besa: The Promise, an award-winning feature documentary about
Albanian Muslims who saved Jews during World War II.Prior to her arts
career, Rachel was an international copyright attorney in the office
of Policy and International Affairs in the U.S. Copyright Office,
where she had responsibility for negotiating and drafting sections of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and represented the
Copyright Office at UNESCO, the World Intellectual Property
Organization and the World Trade Organization. She began her career as
a litigator for the law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. In 2012 she
was awarded a Henry Crown Fellowship at the Aspen Institute.
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