Through the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Fellowship, Rany Syafrina is teaching Indonesian at Harvard University.

She has been teaching English for seven years. Her undergraduate degree is from Universitas Andalas and her graduate degree is from Universitas Gadjah Mada, both in English literature.

Rany works as an English lecturer at Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing Haji Agus Salim, Bukittinggi.