Jonah Wittkamper
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Jonah Wittkamper is a social entrepreneur and biologist.[1] He is the Co-Founder and Global Director of the Nexus Global Youth Summit, a movement to bridge communities of wealth and social entrepreneurship.[2] 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.[3] In 2007 he joined Distributive Networks and helped to build the text messaging technology of the 2008 Obama campaign.[4] He has worked as the United States Director of Search for Common Ground[5] 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.[6] The Wittkamper family is profiled in the book Class of 65.[7]
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- ^ "Millennial Investors Unite". Private Wealth Magazine. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ Tapscott, Don and Williams, Anothy D. (2006). Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, p. 50. Penguin Books Ltd., London. ISBN 1-59184-138-0.
- ^ "Startups get a lift from election '08". Fortune. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Nexus Summit Inspires Next Generation of Billionaires to Give Back". Forbes.com.
- ^ "Growing Up at Koinonia". Christianity Today.
- ^ "How a white student stood by his black classmates during the Civil Rights era". Washington Post.