Dr. Ogunnaike is the Academic Advisor of Deen Arts Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in African Studies and the Study of Religion from Harvard University and spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. Dr. Ogunnaike is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He also teaches courses on Islam, Islamic Philosophy, Spirituality, Art, and African and African Diasporic Religions.