Rana Dajani is Founder of Taghyeer/We Love Reading (WLR), a non-profit organization based in Jordan. She is also a Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Hashemite University in Jordan, a Harvard Radcliff fellow, a Fulbrighter, and Eisenhower fellow, and a Yale and Cambridge visiting professor. She specialises in the research area of refugee youth and the epigenetics of trauma across generations, and is a world expert on genetics of Circassian and Chechan populations in Jordan.