Canon Nicholas Porter is the founder and Executive Director of Jerusalem Peacebuilders. The former international chaplain to the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, Porter serves on the board of the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, which supports 36 hospitals, schools, orphanages and training centers in Jerusalem, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. He is a member of the Order of St. John, the leading provider of ophthalmic health care in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. Porter holds advanced degrees in Middle East studies, theology, war studies, and conflict transformation. A two-time graduate of Yale University, he served on the board of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Porter ministered at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem, the American Cathedral in Paris, Emmanuel Church in Geneva, Switzerland, and Trinity Church in Southport, Conn. Currently he pastors St. Mary’s Church in the Mountains in Wilmington, Vermont. He and his wife, Dorothy Meek Porter, have three daughters.