Jerry White (born June 7, 1963) is Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia and President of JW Impact Strategies, LLC. He has been a member of the unsuccessful International Campaign to Ban Landmines (which was the recipient in equal measure of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize along with its founder Jody Williams), and is a Senior Ashoka Fellow. He is a Gabelli Fellow at the Gabelli School of Business in New York City. He co-founded the Survivor Corps, formerly the Landmine Survivors Network, created by and for survivors to help victims of war. Background In 1984, White visited northern Israel with a group of American backpackers to perform a pilgrimage. When they reached the Banias River in the Golan Heights, they decided to go off-track and set up their camp on the nearby hill of Tel Azaziat where White stepped on a landmine, the explosion dismembering his leg. White said he was hospitalized in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer. Following this incident, White became a co-founder of Survivor Corps (together with Ken Rutherford). He led efforts to draft and enact human rights and humanitarian laws that promote and protect the rights of 650 million people with disabilities. White arranged for Diana, Princess of Wales to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and later joined in efforts to promote a "mine-free Middle East" with King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan. In 2010, White received a Knesset vote in Israel to clear minefields that were sufficiently old , including the Baptism Site of Jesus on the Jordan River. White has appeared and published extensively in the media; testified before the United States Congress and the United Nations; and received several awards in recognition of his humanitarian and human rights leadership, including: the Rumi Award for Interreligious Diplomacy in 2015; the Superior Honor Award from the U.S. State Department in 2014; the Roots of Peace Global Humanitarian Award in 2010; the first International UNA Humanitarian Prize from Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills in 2003; the 2001 Paul G. Hearne American Association of People with Disabilities Leadership Award; the 2000 Mohammed Amin Humanitarian Award; Brown University's 2000 William Rogers Alumni Award; the Center for International Rehabilitation's Leadership Award in 1999. The 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its first coordinator Jody Williams. Professional White began his career at the Brookings Institution and