Sandra Rattley has over 40 years of experience leading and launching multimedia projects. She was Executive Producer, Director & Writer of UNLADYLIKE2020, an innovative animated documentary series about unsung women who changed America at the turn of the 20th century and the women who now follow in their footsteps, which premiered on PBS’s flagship biography series American Masters in honor of the centennial of women’s suffrage. Rattley was also Executive Producer of seminal documentary projects including the Peabody Award winning series Wade in the Water about African American sacred music, produced by NPR and the Smithsonian Institution, and Making the Music, hosted by Wynton Marsalis, produced for NPR and PBS. She was also Executive Producer of the PBS Digital Studios series, Read Awakening. Rattley served as Executive Producer for TV and Video at the Pulitzer Prize winning non-profit journalism organization Futuro Media, where she launched the PBS series America By The Numbers, covering underreported stories about America’s changing demographics, and NBCNews.com’s Humanizing America, profiling the diversity of the American electorate. She was Senior Story Editor of the Spotify podcast series The Sum of Us, hosted by author Heather McGee. Rattley is the former VP for Cultural Programming at NPR where she launched the weekly show, Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, as well as NPR’s office of civic engagement. She also serves as Creative Consultant for Black Public Media’s 360 Incubator, a mentorship program for African American media makers. She has been a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Howard University Center for Urban Progress, and Brandeis University. She was a press spokesperson and a member of the communications team for Nelson Mandela on his first U.S. tour. Rattley also founded and launched the Africa Learning Channel, a Pan-African news and information service broadcast via satellite to over 100 million listeners in 51 countries.