Sandra Rabin

Sandra Rabin is the Founder and President of ThinkShop, a consultancy focused on creating and facilitating professional and collaborative workshops for organizations in the private and public sectors. ThinkShop was created in 2014, and helps clients realize their desired goals while working with the increasing body of scientific research that demonstrates the cognitive benefits of journalism, writing and reading literature. ThinkShop’s work promotes inclusion and diversity, which leads to deeper levels of awareness and understanding, and their key clients include leading health care companies such as Genentech, Roche, and Genomic Health, Inc. Sandra previously conceived and directed an eight part documentary series that focused on the achievements of eight influential figures in black art history: poet Margaret Walker Alexander, photographer James Van Der Zee, artist Aaron Douglas, poet Arna Bontemps, pianist Eubie Black and lyricist Noble Sissle, poet and critic Sterling Brown, and painter Alma Thomas. The series earned multiple awards including the Atlanta International Film Festival and Best of the Year Award by Learning Magazine. Previous to founding ThinkShop, Rabin was a journalism and writing coach, and worked for U.S. Department of Agriculture, with top US Government Security Clearance. Additionally, she was an English Master at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, and spent seven years as an editor, writer and lecturer with The James Weldon Johnson Papers Project. She also worked as a researcher for Sesame Street and as a senior producer, writer and editor at Guidance Associates (a subsidiary of Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich). Sandra is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her MS in Foreign Affairs and Cultural Affairs and was a Dow Jones Fellow as well as a Scripps Howard Fellow. She earned her BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Tufts University.