Jonah Wittkamper
Jonah Wittkamper, born in 1974, is a biologist, a technologist, a spiritualist, and a networker. He makes friendships and through those friendships helps integrate diverse movements. In 1990, at 15, he attended the international youth leadership program Camp Rising Sun and made friends with young leaders from 35 countries. In 1993 he created the first Internet community for the 65-year-old global CRS alumni body. In 1997 as a lead technologist of the Andersen Consulting—Financial Ideas Exchange he adapted leading edge financial technology innovations to empower fledgling youth networks. In 1998 he traveled as part of the Odyssey—World Trek for Service and Education (www.worldtrek.org). In July of 1998, 1999, and 2000 he helped facilitate the youth summit of iEARN.org, the world's largest online youth-service community. In 1999 he founded sadhanaSOLUTIONS.com to match web design projects in New York City with young technologists in developing countries, empowering them to be philanthropists in their own communities. In 2000 he became the Director of Information Technology for the Global Youth Action Network (GYAN)—TakingITGlobal.org (an initiative that structures collaboration among youth movements and organizes the highest traffic youth activist site on the Internet) and a board member of the L.A. Jonas Foundation (endowment of Camp Rising Sun). He is also an advisor to Earth Action, the ManyOne Foundation, the Artemisia Foundation, and Earth Scope (a project of the Buckminster Fuller Institute). He speaks three languages and has facilitated, participated in, and/or spoken at almost 100 international gatherings and conferences mostly on the subject of international youth organizing. Today he is the South American Regional Director of GYAN and starting a family in Sao Paulo, Brazil with his partner Lis Hirano Wittkamper of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.