She was one of the first women to graduate from Princeton University from which she holds a degree in East Asian Studies.
She is also president of East West Communications, a company that facilitates cultural understanding between Japan and the United States.
A well-known translator of Japanese spiritual and cultural texts, Rande co-authored the New York Times bestseller Geisha, A Life with Mineko Iwasaki (Atria, 2002).
She received her Master of Social Work degree from New York University and is a licensed psychotherapist with a specific focus on the intersection of Buddhism, spirituality, and psychology.
[1] As President of the Psychoanalytic Society of William Alanson White Institute, in 2021-2022 she organized the popular colloquia series “The Uncanny, Revisited, Transpersonal Communication in the Interpersonal Field”, which is currently being reprised in its entirety by the Confer Center in London.