• Kent Heckenlively

Blog: BolenReport – http://bolenreport.com/​

Science based analysis of the North American health care system.

Kent Heckenlively is a science teacher, an attorney, and a founding editor of Age of Autism. During college Heckenlively worked for U.S. Senator Pete Wilson and was the school’s Rhodes Scholar candidate. In law school he was a writer and editor of the school’s law review and spent his summers working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco.

In the summer of 2010 and 2011, Heckenlively attended the Teacher Research Academy at Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratories, spending eight weeks in a virus lab investigating the expression of micro-RNAs in a monkey model of Ebola infection. Kent is also a member of the Compass group, a consortium of autism parents, leading scientists, and philanthropists in Silicon Valley looking for answers to neuro-immune diseases.