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Rachel Goslins is the Chief Creative Officer of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, a new cultural institution in Washington DC aimed at increasing access to opportunity for all. Prior to this, she served as 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, as a space to explore creativity, innovation and the future. She created and launched multiple new events and programs during her tenure, including the blockbuster FUTURES exhibition, the Long Conversation series, and the By the People festival partnership. Previously, she served as Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, an advisory committee to the White House on cultural policy, from 2009 until late 2015. Under her management, the Committee launched several major national initiatives in education and cultural diplomacy, facilitated federal and private funding for cultural priorities, and organized high-profile artists, actors and musicians as advocates for arts education. Earlier in her career, Rachel founded a documentary production company, directing feature documentaries and working on productions for PBS, the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and History. She also served as the Director of the Independent Digital Distribution Lab, a joint PBS/ITVS project. Before working in the arts, Rachel was an international copyright attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the U.S. Copyright Office. Rachel is a Trustee of the Greater Washington Community Foundation, an Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA, a 2012 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Halcyon Incubator.
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