Jonah Wittkamper

Jonah Wittkamper is a social entrepreneur, Internet startup CEO,[1] biologist,[2] and convener. He is the Co-Founder and Global Director of the Nexus Global Youth Summit, a movement to bridge communities of wealth and social entrepreneurship.[3] He works to unite young social, political, religious, and philanthropic leaders at the United Nations[4] as well as at the White House[5] and the United States Congress.[6] Earlier in his career, he co-founded the Global Youth Action Network, a global association of youth organizations that merged with TakingITGlobal and grew to become one of the largest communities of young social change leaders on the internet.[7] In 2007 he joined Distributive Networks and helped to build the text messaging technology of the 2008 Obama campaign.[8] He has worked as the United States Director of Search for Common Ground[9] and is the founder and owner of EZinTouch.com, a contact management platform. He is an alumnus of Williams College and Camp Rising Sun.

Jonah Wittkamper is a grandson of Will Wittkamper, a former steward of Koinonia Farm, the inter-racial Christian intentional community in Americus, Georgia, that inspired the creation of Habitat for Humanity.[10] The Wittkamper family is profiled in the book Class of 65.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Helping to Launch Those who Launch Companies". Newsday. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Root herbivory: in vitro Interactions between roots and aphids grown in aseptic coculture". In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Millennial Investors Unite". Private Wealth Magazine. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "UN Galvanizes Philanthropy". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Including the young and philanthropic - White House hosts 'Next Generation'". New York Times. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Engaging Disaffected Millennials". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Tapscott, Don and Williams, Anothy D. (2006). Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, p. 50. Penguin Books Ltd., London. ISBN 1-59184-138-0.
  8. ↑ "Startups get a lift from election '08". Fortune. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  9. ↑ "Nexus Summit Inspires Next Generation of Billionaires to Give Back". Forbes.com.
  10. ↑ "Growing Up at Koinonia". Christianity Today.
  11. ↑ "How a white student stood by his black classmates during the Civil Rights era". Washington Post.
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