Jennifer Anne Raff (born 1979, née Kedzie) is an American geneticist and an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas.

[1] While she was a child, her mother started a doctoral degree in neuroscience, which inspired Raff to follow a career in scientific research.

During her last year of high school, Raff asked a professor in a nearby university if she could join his laboratory and started to work on molecular biology.

in biology and anthropology from Indiana University Bloomington in 2001,[2] after which she worked for a year in a yeast molecular genetics lab.

In 2019, Raff was awarded a $450,000, three-year National Science Foundation Search Grant to investigate the genetic history of the Aleut people.

[9] Raff teaches courses on Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology, on Human Evolution, and on Critical Analysis of Scientific Literature.

[15] She has written about the importance of vaccination – in particular, her article "Dear parents, you are being lied to" has been translated into several languages,[16][17][18] including German,[19] Italian,[20] Norwegian,[21] Vietnamese,[22] Croatian.

[38][39] She reached the semifinals in the Chicago Golden Gloves Women's 156 pound Senior Novice division in 2012, but lost the title bout to Allie Ayers.