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Gordon Porter, Chair
— Woodstock
Dr. Gordon L. Porter is the Director, Inclusive Education Initiatives,
for the Canadian Association for Community Living; the Chair of the New
Brunswick Human Rights Commission; and a retired professor at the University
of Maine at Presque Isle. He has also taught at McGill University, the
University of Prince Edward Island and the University of Calgary.
Dr. Porter studied at the University of New Brunswick, the University
of Maine and Syracuse University in New York.
Dr. Porter is an internationally known expert on inclusive education who
has consulted, lectured and conducted training in numerous countries around
the world. He was Director of Student Services for the schools in the
Woodstock area, after serving as a teacher and principal in several New
Brunswick schools.
Dr. Porter is the recipient of the 2007 Whitworth Award for Education
Research presented by the Canadian Education Association. The Award recognizes
Dr. Porter’s substantial contribution nationally and internationally
to building inclusive classrooms at both a conceptual and a practical
level.
Dr. Porter was a Visiting Fellow at the New Zealand Institute in Mental
Retardation at the University of Otago and a keynote speaker at the UNESCO
World Conference on Special Education held in Salamanca, Spain, and has
acted as a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank. He co-edited
the book Changing Canadian Schools: Perspectives on Disability and
Inclusion, as well as many articles and chapters in books.
Dr. Porter is a recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal. He received
a Doctor of Civil Laws degree from the University of New Brunswick in
recognition of his work with persons with disabilities. He was appointed
as a member of the Human Rights Commission in 2001 and as Chair of the
Commission in May 2005. He is currently Chair of CASHRA, the national
association of statutory human rights organizations.