Nazanin Rafsanjani is the former head of new show development for

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. Previously she was creative director at

and before that, a senior producer for ''

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''. Rafsanjani was featured in the first season of Gimlet's podcast ''StartUp'', consulting with her husband

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as he launched a media company then called American Podcasting Corporation. As the business grew, Rafsanjani elected to join the team, specifically to develop branded podcasts (podcasts produced by Gimlet on behalf of advertisers) as a source of revenue for the firm. The first branded podcast from Rafsanjani's four-person creative team at Gimlet was a six-episode series for

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called ''Open for Business'', which hit number one on the

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podcast chart. Rafsanjani has been praised for the journalism and producing skills she brings to Gimlet's marketing projects; hiring for her team at Gimlet Creative also drew from journalism, including Katelyn Bogucki from ''

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'' and Frances Harlow from

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's ''

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''. In 2013, Rafsanjani was nominated for an

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, with ''The Rachel Maddow Show'' team, for Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis. She has also been a contributor to ''

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'' and a 2006

-Bucksbaum International Fellow. She serves on the board of directors of

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