As a Board member and Chairman of the Schools Committee of New York City Outward Bound, Jonathan works actively to help under-served youth in New York City.  NYCOB manages ten high schools in partnership with the New York City Department of Education based on the Expeditionary Learning model.

At Wesleyan University, Harber studied Cognitive Science and completed an Honors thesis on education technology. At MIT, Harber completed a joint Master's thesis between the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Sloan School involving the creation of an environment for multimedia case studies for higher education.

Harber was the co-founder and president of Diva, a publisher of multimedia authoring software, which sold over one million units around the world.  Diva's flagship product, VideoShop, was used by students and teachers to create interactive-multimedia projects. Diva was acquired by Avid Technology (NASDAQ: AVID). 

Jonathan was CEO and founder of the award-winning children's education software company KinderActive. The company created interactive reading products for young learners winning the "Teacher's Choice - Excellence in Classroom Products" Award from Learning Magazine. Jonathan was also the co-founder and Chairman of NewKidCo the first company to develop and market children's education video games including Elmo's Letter Adventure - for PlayStation and Nintendo N64. NewKidCo was acquired by SoftQuad (NASDAQ: SFQD).

A native New Yorker, Jonathan lives in New York City with his wife, daughter, and two sons.