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{{Short description|American administrator and film director}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Rachel Goslins
| image = Rachel Goslins.jpg
| office = [[Executive Director]] of the [[President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities]]
| term_start = July 2009
| term_end = December 2015
| president = [[Barack Obama]]
| predecessor = David H. Moran, III<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090223112214/http://www.pcah.gov/contact.html President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VN1Fk6b9lSMC&dq=David+H.+Moran+President%27s+Committee+on+the+Arts+and+the+Humanities&pg=PA168 Policy and Supporting Positions (Plum Book), [Committee Print], November 12, 2008, 110-2, S. Part 110-36, *]</ref>
| successor = [[Megan Beyer|Megan C. Beyer]]
| birth_name = Rachel Eva Goslins<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XN9EAQAAMAAJ&dq=Rachel+Eva+Goslins&pg=PA167 Policy and Supporting Positions, (Committee Print), December 1, 2012 - page 167]</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|07|23}}<ref name="Birth Index">[https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/rachel_e_goslins_born_1969_10569930 California Birth Index]</ref>
| birth_place = [[Los Angeles County, California]], U.S.<ref name="Birth Index" />
| death_date =
| death_place =
| education = [[University of California, Santa Cruz]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[University of California, Los Angeles]] {{small|([[Juris Doctor|JD]])}}
| occupation = [[film producer]], [[film director]]
| spouse = [[Julius Genachowski]] (div. 2020)
| children = 2
| footnotes = <ref>{{cite news |accessdate=2011-06-10 |location=[[Rockville, Maryland]] |date=24 December 2008 |title=Rachel Goslins |work=[[Washington Jewish Week|Washington Jewish Week - Online Edition]] |url=http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=51&ArticleID=9869&TM=73616.05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811130643/http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=51&ArticleID=9869&TM=73616.05 |archivedate=11 August 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter=Julius Genachowski |title=The Complete Marquis Who's Who |year=2010 |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale Biography In Context]] |accessdate=2011-06-10 |chapter-url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC2&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CK2016545010&mode=view&userGroupName=fairfax_main&jsid=aec21101e0d9db1ded2cc8e41f5051c9 |id={{Gale|K2016545010}} {{subscription required}}|title-link=Marquis Who's Who }}</ref>
}}
'''Rachel Eva Goslins''' (born July 23, 1969) is an American non-profit leader, museum director and documentary film director. As of October 2023, she is the executive director and Chief Creative Officer of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, a cultural center in Washington, D.C. Prior to this, she was Director of the Smithsonian's [[Arts and Industries Building]].<ref name=saib>{{cite news |last=McGlone |first=Peggy |date=11 August 2016 |title=Smithsonian hires director for long-dormant Arts and Industries Building |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/08/11/smithsonian-hires-director-for-long-dormant-arts-and-industries-building/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_2_na |newspaper=Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=11 August 2016 }}</ref> She was previously head of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities under President Obama, launching several initiatives in education and cultural diplomacy, and organizing a campaign for arts education.<ref name=saib/>

Earlier in her career, Rachel founded a documentary production company, directing feature documentaries and television productions, and practiced law as an international copyright attorney.

==Career==

Goslins is the executive director and Chief Creative Officer of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in Washington, D.C.<ref>[https://www.mcaad.org/person/rachelgoslins Rachel Goslins: Executive Director & Chief Creative Officer] Milken Center</ref> She joined the organization in 2022. It is part of the [[Milken Institute]].

Prior to this, she was the Director of the Arts & Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution. In that capacity she led the revitalization and reopening of the museum, closed to the public for over a decade. She served in this position for 6 years, major initiatives include the Long conversation series and the By The People arts and cultural festival, and the FUTURES exhibition, a pan-institutional 35,000 sq ft. exhibit that welcomed almost a million visitors in 9 months and received global media coverage.{{cn|date=October 2023}}

Before the Smithsonian, Goslins was the [[executive director]] of the [[President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities]],<ref name="turn">{{cite web |url=http://turnaroundarts.pcah.gov/direct-director-november-2015/|title=Turnaround Arts:November 2015 Newsletter |date=November 5, 2015 |accessdate=2016-07-15 |website=turnaroundarts.pcah.gov}}</ref> an advisory committee to the [[Executive Office of the President of the United States|White House]] on cultural policy. President Obama appointed her to this position in 2009. In this capacity, she worked closely with the White House, senior government officials, prominent artists, philanthropists and entrepreneurs and the country's 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 $50M in public-private partnerships to support the arts, and launched several new initiatives, including Turnaround Arts, 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, the National Student Poets Program, 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.<ref name="turn"/>

===Film===
Her feature documentary, ''Bama Girl'' premiered at the 2008 [[South by Southwest]] (SXSW) [[Film Festival]] and later broadcast on the [[Independent Film Channel]] (IFC).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://2008.sxsw.com/film/screenings/film/F10501.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-01-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183545/http://2008.sxsw.com/film/screenings/film/F10501.html |archivedate=2008-08-28 }}</ref> 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 in the United States|racial segregation]], internal black politics, and [[The Machine (social group)|The Machine]], a secret [[coalition]] of traditionally [[White people|white]] [[fraternities and sororities]] formed in 1914.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bamagirlfilm.com/about |title=Bama Girl - About |accessdate=2011-06-10}}</ref> She has worked on productions for the [[Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS), the [[Discovery Channel]], the [[National Geographic Channel]] (Nat Geo), and [[History (U.S. TV channel)|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 [[Albania]]n [[Muslim]]s who saved [[Jews]] during World War II.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rachel Goslins |url=http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=51&ArticleID=9869&TM=73616.05 |website=Washington Jewish Week |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811130643/http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=51&ArticleID=9869&TM=73616.05 |archive-date=August 11, 2011 |date=December 24, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Law===
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.{{cn|date=October 2023}} 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.{{cn|date=October 2023}}

==Personal life==
[[File:P071509PS-0392 (3818158702).jpg|thumb|Goslins and her family with President [[Barack Obama]] in the [[Oval Office]] in 2009.]]
She was previously married to investor and former [[Federal Communications Commission]] Chairman [[Julius Genachowski]], and they have two children together.<ref name="kantor2008">{{Cite news
|last=Kantor
|first=Jodi
|authorlink=Jodi Kantor
|title=JULIUS GENACHOWSKI; Candidates for Obama's Inner Circle
|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE2D71E3DF936A25752C1A96E9C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
|newspaper=[[New York Times]]
|date=2008-11-15
|accessdate=2010-10-17}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4745 Webcast on World Digital Library]
*{{IMDb name|0331524}}
*{{facebook|rgoslins}}

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[[Category:Henry Crown Fellows]]
[[Category:People associated with Gibson Dunn]]
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