Dr. Sonali Rajan is a professor of health promotion and education in the Department of Health Studies and Applied Educational Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. She also holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health. She is codirector of the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention and for the past two years served as the founding president of the Research Society for Firearm-Related Harms. Dr. Rajan is a school violence prevention researcher, studying gun violence, school safety, and adverse childhood experiences. She is coleading research in these areas funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And for the past year has been serving on a National Academies committee conducting a consensus study on the impacts of active shooter drills on children, their health, and well-being. Dr. Rajan’s work is specifically focused on how to best create healthy and safe environments where children can optimally learn, particularly in the face of the growing firearm violence crisis in the US. Dr. Rajan graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, her Master of Science in Applied Statistics from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her Doctor of Education in Health and Behavior Studies also from Teachers College. From 2010-12, she was an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellow at the National Development and Research Institutes.