Dr. Rayna Harris is an adjunct faculty member in biology and chemistry at Lake Tahoe Community College. She lives near Lake Tahoe and also works part-time at a ski resort and a hostess at a restaurant to support her snow skiing and snowboarding habits. She is also starting a yoga business.

Dr. Harris received a B.S in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Harris was a postdoctoral scholar in the Data Intensive Biology Lab at UC Davis.