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]

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