John Adekunle is a research assistant at the Center for Autism Research at Kessler Foundation. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY.  As an undergraduate, John worked as a research assistant in two research labs. In a study on ageism led by Sheri R. Levy, PhD, he contributed to research using a positive education and contact-experience model to improve attitudes toward aging. He also participated in a program review of cultural competency in psychiatric residency programs conducted by Wilfred H. Farquharson IV, PhD, and Dodie Gillett, PhD, which aimed to demonstrate the need for improved cultural competency education and propose methods for improvement.