Alison Cole ’99, executive director of the YAA, meets with university leaders to learn more about their priorities and how the alumni community can support them. In this episode, Alison chats with Rachel Fine, Executive Director of Yale Schwarzman Center. Rachel shares how the Schwarzman Center has become a cohesive hub for the entire Yale community.
Yale Afternoons with Alison: Rachel Fine
L: Rachel Fine, executive director of Yale Schwarzman Center. R: Alison Cole ’99, executive director of the YAA
Rachel Fine joined Yale Schwarzman Center as executive director in October 2022, following her tenure as executive director and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
Also a concert pianist, Fine attended the Music Academy of the West and Eastman School of Music. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Irvine. Other educational pursuits led her to Yale for graduate school, where she studied musicology, and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where she was an arts management fellow.
Prior to her tenure at The Wallis, Fine was executive director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (2010-2015) and Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (2007-2010). In 2009, she founded the Los Angeles Children's Chorus' Young Men's Ensemble. With the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Fine introduced and produced “Play Me, I'm Yours,” a citywide piano installation and community art project. She also conceived and produced Strad Fest, a weeklong international festival of Stradivarius violins. Fine has held leadership positions at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management, Aspen Music Festival, Santa Fe Opera, and The Juilliard School, among others.
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