About Us
Since spring 2019, Penn State Sustainability has presented the Intersections film program. To date nearly 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 awareness of and engagement with the 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals. We seek to bring together interested audiences to build connections among Penn State colleges, campuses, and communities throughout Pennsylvania and to inspire action on sustainability challenges across the commonwealth. In 2023-2024, we offered three series of films under this program: From Anxiety to Action, Landscapes of Labor, and Soundings. If you’re interested in partnering on a future screening or have an idea for a film we should program in 2024-25, please get in touch.
Peter Boger — Peter Boger is the Associate Director for Community Engagement at Penn State Sustainability and is the founder and supervisor of the Intersections program. He supervises Penn State Sustainability’s public programming 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
Grant Rowe — Grant Rowe is the Programming Coordinator for Penn State Sustainability. Working to help plan and promote the sustainability Intersections Series, Showcase Series, Summit, Colloquium on the Environment, and Commonwealth Campus Forums among other public programming events, Grant helps foster an environment where individuals can come together to educate themselves and develop the skills necessary to work toward creating a more equitable and sustainable future. Grant holds two undergraduate degrees from Susquehanna University, including a B.A. in Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Political Science. Contact: ger5277@psu.edu
Nora Di Martino — Nora is a sophomore pursuing a Political Science B.A. and a Sustainability and Italian minor. She is currently the Community Engagement Intern at Penn State Sustainability and is involved with other student organizations on campus such as Phi Beta Lambda, Business in Cosmetics, Empowering Women in Law, Penn State Public Policy Association, College Democrats, and The Roar Zone. She hopes to use her degree to work in foreign service or sustainability consulting. In her free time she likes running, cooking, and watching hockey.
Contact: ncd5208@psu.edu
