Jerry White

JERRY WHITE is a global activist who has dedicated his life to helping victims of violent conflict. While camping in Northern Israel in 1984, he stepped on a landmine, and he spent nearly six months in Israeli hospitals learning to walk on an artificial leg. Since then, he has become a recognized leader of the historic International Campaign to Ban Landmines, co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace; and a cofounder of Survivor International. He has testified before the US Congress and the United Nations and appeared in hundreds of media interviews and profiles. White lives in Maryland and Malta with his wife Kelly, four kids, and a Shiba Inu.