Over the past decade, Rana has been working alongside communities with lived experience of disability and difference to amplify their voices and co-design arts programs and practices. She is currently a Research Associate with the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University and on Accessing The Arts (Re-Vision Centre) that aims to expand D/deaf and disability cultural presence online to make it discoverable for the public, creating a truly inclusive arts culture. She is also the co-founder of Emergent Futures CoLab (EFC), a transnational collective of artists, scholars, and activists who work on collaborative projects that channel uncertainty and reimagine more equitable futures with their communities. As co-curator of EFC’s Talking Uncertainty series, she is using cutting-edge storytelling and design tools to mobilize knowledge and build activist solidarities that transcend artistic and academic boundaries.During her PhD program at the University of Alberta, Rana conducted a SSHRC-funded ethnographic project where she co-created and facilitated ethnomusicology programs with immigrant and refugee youth around anti-racism and intercultural dialogue. Her presentation of this arts-based critical pedagogy earned her the Bess Lomax Hawes Award in Applied Ethnomusicology. Her earlier research on the politics of inter-sectarian music-making in Lebanon has been published in an academic journal and an edited book on improvisation in the aftermath of war and colonialism.