Jonah Wittkamper
Jonah Wittkamper is a biologist, entrepreneur, 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. 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, the White House and the United States Congress. 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. In 2007 he joined Distributive Networks and helped to build the text messaging technology of the 2008 Obama campaign and in 2015 he served as an advisor to the Council on Foundations' Evolution of Philanthropy Initiative. He has worked as the United States Director of Search for Common Ground and is the founder and owner of , 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. The Wittkamper family is profiled in the book Class of 65.
