Student-founded,
community-driven.

Ian Oak is a co-founder and Medical Program Lead of the Emergency Education Initiative. A junior at Northern Valley Regional High School, Ian is a certified EMT who volunteers with his local first aid corps — responding to real emergencies in his community and bringing that firsthand experience directly into every EEI program he leads.

Balancing varsity athletics, school leadership, and his EMT work, Ian has a proven ability to show up when it matters. He's passionate about making emergency education accessible to everyone and is committed to reaching new communities across New Jersey.

Aaron Choi is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Emergency Education Initiative. A junior at Northern Valley Regional High School in Old Tappan, NJ, Aaron has spent the past two years working at the intersection of emergency medicine and community service — as an EMS Cadet with the Old Tappan First Aid Corps, responding to real calls alongside certified EMTs, and as a hospital volunteer at St. Joseph's Health in Paterson.

Those experiences gave him a clear picture of what happens when someone nearby doesn't know what to do in a crisis — and a conviction that it doesn't have to be that way. He co-founded EEI to put life-saving knowledge directly into the hands of everyday people, free of charge.