Jonah Wittkamper

Jonah Wittkamper is a biologist,[1] entrepreneur,[2] and activist. He is the Co-Founder and President of the Nexus Global Youth Summit, a movement to bridge communities of wealth and social entrepreneurship.[3] He is also the Founder of the Healthy Democracy Coalition, a network of philanthropists dedicated to bridging political divides. He works to unite young social and philanthropic leaders to influence the public sector, including the United Nations,[4][5][6][7] the White House[8][9] and the United States Congress.[10][11][12] 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.[13] In 2007 he joined Distributive Networks and helped to build the text messaging technology of the 2008 Obama campaign[14] and in 2015 he served as an advisor to the Council on Foundations' Evolution of Philanthropy Initiative.[15] He has worked as the United States Director of Search for Common Ground[16] 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.[17] The Wittkamper family is profiled in the book Class of 65.[18]