Career
He works to unite young social, political, religious, and philanthropic leaders at the United Nations as well as at 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.
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.