""It can be difficult to adjust to the academic rigors at a prestigious university like Cornell. However, AIISP has offered me the necessary support and sense of community that have helped me to thrive and excel. Specifically, the Akwe:kon Program House has provided an Indigenous space on campus where I feel most comfortable.”"
Peter was named
Student of the Year by the Native Scholars Forward Fund, was selected to sit on the Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council, serves as a Student Ambassador for the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Cornell and is a lead student coordinator of the peer-to-peer Native American and Indigenous Mentorship Program (NAIMP). He was inducted into the
McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program in his sophomore year. In the summer of 2023 he was a research assistant in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering in the Charles Lab run by
Michael Charles (Dine/Navajo) studying the effects of dispossession on Indigenous food systems that benefited
Land Grant Universities.
Peter plans on pursuing a Ph.D in Environmental Engineering with a research focus on the role of traditional knowledge in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Interests
Biological Engineering (Major)
American Indian and Indigenous Studies (Minor)
Environment and Sustainability (Minor)
