Jonathan Kassa is a leader in the education safety and security environment, working closely across multidisciplinary professions to reduce violence and trauma in communities while advancing healing and justice. He is an elected, volunteer school board director at one of the largest school districts in Pennsylvania, chairing the Safe Schools committee. He is also executive director for ZeroNow, a national nonprofit determined to end school violence and is listed as one of Life Safety Alliance’s inaugural Top 40 Global Security Thought Leaders (2024) and serves as a senior executive consultant for CriticalArc.
As former executive director, Jonathan led the transformation of Clery Center’s partnering with institutions of higher education. He was described as a “valuable leader in campus safety” in the 2008 (HR) Congressional Record and influenced federal legislation requiring Emergency Notification, hate and bias crime reporting, and amendments to the Violence Against Women Act. Most recently, Jonathan was vice president for regulatory compliance at a national firm where he helped clients to proactively address risk, implement program improvement plans, conduct internal audits and assist institutions of higher education facing U.S. Department of Education program reviews for Clery Act compliance.