Rafsanjani received her bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and completed her master’s in journalism at Columbia University.
[7][8] Consequently, Rafsanjani left her position at MSNBC in 2015 to join Gimlet as the creative director.
[9][10] The first branded podcast from Rafsanjani's four-person creative team at Gimlet was a six-episode series for eBay called Open for Business, which hit number one on the iTunes podcast chart.
[11] She has been praised for the journalism and producing skills she brought to Gimlet's marketing projects,[12] hiring fellow journalists for her team at Gimlet Creative including Katelyn Bogucki from The Huffington Post and Frances Harlow from NPR's Planet Money.
[17] In 2013, Rafsanjani was nominated for an Emmy Award, with The Rachel Maddow Show team, for Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis.