Commissioner Aaron Harber

Aaron Harber
Commissioner

Lafayette, Colorado
Congressional District 2
Appointed July 2, 2021
Term Ends July 1, 2029

Aaron is the host of "The Aaron Harber Show." He received the Colorado Broadcasters Association’s “Broadcaster of the Year” award for the nonpartisan television program.

Aaron first hosted "The Watch Dog" on Talk of the Rockies Network -- a political issues, consumer affairs, and citizens' rights program. Next, he hosted “Against The Rush” on Talk America Radio Network’s 51 stations. Talkers Magazine selected him as one of America’s most important on-air personalities.

Aaron gained national recognition when he defeated Rush Limbaugh, who sued Aaron frivolously for $20 million for using the word “Rush” in his show title.

In locations ranging from Colorado to Washington, D.C. to Baghdad, Aaron’s guests always have joined him in-person (e.g., Donald Trump, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O’Connor, Steven Breyer, Steve Forbes, John Lewis, David Petraeus, Michelle Obama, Madeleine Albright, Robert Mueller, Kevin Costner, Bob Costas, and Oliver Stone).

As president of American Research Corporation in Colorado and the Silicon Valley, Aaron focused on strategic planning, organizational consulting, survey research, and computer software for Bank of America, Motorola Corporation, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Atari, Inc., Memorex, SPRINT, Case Western Reserve, Environment Canada, Rockwell International, Knight-Ridder, UNISYS, Public Service Company, Hughes Aircraft, the U.S. Department of Energy, Tandem Computers, Security Pacific National Bank, the St. Vrain Valley School District, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Aaron was elected to the governing Board of Trustees of Princeton University and as President of the 3,000-member International Tandem [Computers] Users' Group. He was a Registered U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission Investment Advisor and founded the Colorado Tax Service and the Colorado Accounting Service.

He was a University of Colorado fundraiser, the Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre of Colorado’s first president, a Volunteer Probation Counselor for the City and County Courts of Denver, and a Board member for the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. He also was a Puppy Raiser and Air Courier for Guide Dogs for the Blind.

Aaron was Co-Director of the Chicano Film Project (producing the film, "Los Inmigrantes"). He was an ECO-CYCLE volunteer and an Attention Homes Relief House Parent (an alternative to jail for young offenders). He was the first male elected to the Board of the Boulder County Women's Resource Center and helped create the Boulder SAFEHOUSE. He also co-founded the Women’s Equity Fund. He also was the recipient of the “Geosciences in the Media” award from the 40,000-member AAPG.

Aaron was a gubernatorial appointee to the Colorado Department of Law's Collection Agency Board in the Attorney General’s Office and was the first public member ever elected Chairman. He also was a gubernatorial appointee to the State's U.S. Census Complete Count Committee. He currently serves as a gubernatorial appointee as a member of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.

A graduate of Fairview High School (in Boulder, Colorado), Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs (receiving an A.B., focusing on Economics) and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (receiving an M.P.A., focusing on Ethics in the Professions), he’s been a Single Parent for two decades. He has lived on and managed a 320-acre farm for a third of a century.

Commissioner Harber was appointed to the Commission by Gov. Polis through July 1, 2025 as a Democratic resident of the 2nd Congressional District.