Help people understand and connect with Islam and its guidance at a real, personal, humane, and applicable level with a sustainable, safe community structure.

Ryan Assi has studied electrical and computer engineering with a BS and MS achieved over the course of 6 years of study. In his career, he has worked on cross-functional engineering teams, design and production teams, research teams, and business development teams, at the corporate level. As a Muslim who was born, raised, and living in the West, the combination of Religion and Faith into every aspect of our lives is often seen as a strict, difficult, and overwhelming experience. However, the beauty, health, and serenity is often lost, misunderstood, and misrepresented.

Islam is a religion that heavily emphasizes and is based on the establishing and maintaining of relationships,  and he has taken his expertise on designing, maintaining, evaluating, and critically investigating failures of systems to the world of relationships, what really brings people closer together, what establishes love, and what makes an irreplaceable, memorable relationship. In helping Muslims and Non-Muslims alike, he realized that there isn't much specific, helpful content out there to help us regarding our relationships with ourselves, building relationships with strangers, getting married, a relationship with our Creator, and how to come at it from a healthy, balanced perspective. 

Marriage is a difficult subject to tackle, and youth find themselves in a difficult predicament that seems to go misunderstood by their elders. As a happily married husband who went against cultural and family norms to marry outside of his race, ethnicity, and culture, Ryan focuses on teaching others how to clearly navigate difficult situations and get to the crux of what marriage and our relationships truly are.

The religion was established as a guide: clear, easy, memorable, and not a burden. Ryan established JTI as a mechanism to bring people together on a journey to redefine our relationships through real life, human experiences that make sense.

Other than JTI and being an engineer, his hobbies include: writing, fountain pens, reading, archery (mounted and on foot), Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), Iaido, Soccer, team-based video games (such as Ark), and philosophical conversations.