About Us
Since spring 2019, SustainPSU has presented the Intersections film program. To date more than 7,000 attendees have joined us for more than 50 film screenings highlighting critical sustainability issues. At the same time, we have featured more than 100 speakers/post-film panelists, including Oscar-winning filmmakers, global activists, and leading scholars. Our goal is to highlight the ways in which different sustainability challenges and solutions intersect, promoting student and community awareness of and engagement with the 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals. We seek to bring together interested audiences to foster student success; to build connections among Penn State colleges, campuses, and communities throughout Pennsylvania; and to inspire action on sustainability challenges across the commonwealth. In 2024-2025, we offered programming under the theme of Mind Over Matter. If you’re interested in partnering on a future screening or have an idea for a film we should program or panelist we should feature in a post-film discussion, please get in touch.
Jake Hohner — Jake is a a rising senior majoring in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, with a minor in Chemistry. He has been passionate about sustainability since he was introduced to it in his sophomore year of high school and has been an active member of Penn State’s EcoReps student sustainability ambassadors program since coming to Penn State. In EcoReps, he has served as the Athletics Relations Assistant Programming Coordinator, where he worked to further the Zero Waste Initiative in the President’s box during football games as well as expand the initiative into other sporting events. As the Public Programming Intern at SustainPSU, Jake helps to curate films and speakers for public events and coordinate the logistics and promotion of SustainPSU’s public programming. Outside of EcoReps, he works in a lab conducting research on cancer treatments and spends most of his free time rock climbing indoors and outdoors.
Contact: jrh6707@psu.edu
Peter Boger — Peter Boger is the Director for Engagement at SustainPSU and is the founder of the Intersections program. He supervises SustainpSU’s public and student-facing programming, communications, and Commonwealth engagement and is responsible for helping articulate and implement a vision for community engagement, integrating the university’s sustainability initiatives with the needs and goals of community and campus partners throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Peter holds a Ph.D and M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a focus on environmental media and history, as well as a B.A. in History focused on environmental history from Princeton University. He was a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow in 2006. Previously, he was director of Tales from Planet Earth, at the time the largest free-admission environmental film festival in the U.S. Contact: pgb45@psu.edu
