Who We Are
Sashka Rothchild is the Founder and CEO of Record Store Studio, a research-driven production studio building software and media at the intersection of oral history, memory, and creativity. Her team’s work centers on how individuals, families, and communities preserve lived experience across generations, with an emphasis on ethical design, care, and long-term responsibility in emerging technology. Across this work, they examines how loss shapes mental health, social connection, and resilience, and how narrative practices can reduce isolation and support wellbeing.
Record Store Studio currently focuses on designing human-centered tools—including AI-supported products—that help people safely record, preserve, and steward family history and knowledge, contributing to more compassionate and inclusive approaches to health, care, and collective memory.
Exploring grief through art & storytelling
Currently, Sashka focuses on the convergence of art, creativity, and the complexities of grief and loss. As the Executive Producer and Co-host of Ghost Stories, a podcast and event series exploring these themes and as producer on the Oscar Qualified documentary film Eat Flowers.
Based in New York City, she's dedicated to ensuring everyone's stories are preserved.
Eat Flowers - artifacts of a life cut short.
When photographer and writer Cig Harvey found out her best friend Mary was diagnosed with terminal leukemia, she did what she knew best: made photographs. As Mary faced isolation and debilitating treatment, Cig set out to bring the world to Mary. Over the coming years, Cig captured and sent Mary images of beauty, life and color. Images that evoked the sensual, the sacred, the delicate and the brave. Images exploding with color, piercing with light, evoking the pain and beauty of life, even as we face death.