Jaren was instrumental in getting South Huntington to put an ex-officio student member on its school board. It was a project he began working on when he started ninth grade at Walt Whitman, with help from his uncle, who is a deputy mayor in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. “He went to a [school] board meeting there and noticed that there was a student representative on that board,” explained Jaren. “So he called me up one day and he said, ‘Jaren, I think you'd be perfect for this position. Does your district have it?’ I said, ‘No, it doesn't.’ He said, ‘Alright, let's see what the law is, and let's craft an email to send it to the board and superintendent to see if we can get this done.’”