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 into TakingITGlobal, an online network often cited as "the world's largest community of young people interested in positive social change." In 2007 he joined Distributive Networks and helped to build the text messaging technology of the 2008 Obama campaign.[7] He has worked as the United States Director of Search for Common Ground 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 leader of Koinonia Partners, an inter-racial Christian intentional community in Americus, GA, that served as the birthplace of Habitat for Humanity.
References
- ^ "Helping to Launch Those who Launch Companies". Newsday. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ "Root herbivory: in vitro Interactions between roots and aphids grown in aseptic coculture". In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ "Millennial Investors Unite". Private Wealth Magazine. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "UN Galvanizes Philanthropy". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Including the young and philanthropic". New York Times. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Engaging Disaffected Millennials". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ "Startups get a lift from election '08". Fortune. Retrieved 29 July 2014.