Duniya Lang has worked as a researcher on Islamic trauma healing and reconciliation in the past six years in collaboration with the University of Washington’s Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress. She pursued her higher education at the University of Minnesota and graduated there with a B.A. in political science. She also earned her M.S.C.J., Master of Science in Criminal Justice at Boston University. She worked as a Community Advocate and Program Manager where she learned the need for trauma healing in the Somali and Muslim communities.