Skip to main content

Nominations Now Open:  2026 Faces of SSU

Do you know an SSU student, faculty member, staff member, or alum who embodies the spirit of Sonoma State? Now’s your chance to nominate them for the 2026 Faces of SSU!

Submit your nomination by October 19, 2025: 

Faces of SSU Nomination Form

Peter Forte

Peter Forte

My name is Peter Forte I am a third year geography, environment, and planning studies major, but I just generally love to learn, question, and reason to better myself. I care about solving problems that face our student population, local community and the globe.

Primarily, I focus on the injustice of environmental health disparities between communities. I care about the experience of SSU students and want them to be generally happy and healthy individuals who feel a sense of belonging while they attend this school. I’m concerned about what impedes them from feeling this way, and work with other student leaders to address this.

I am a member of Associated Students, acting as the Director of Sustainability for Join Us Making Progress and am the Treasurer of Students for Sustainability. I’ve challenged myself by being a full time student and part time employee. A constant challenge I face is learning to accept myself as enough even when I want to do so much more with my time here and learning to cherish the little moments of my college experience as I progress.

A third challenge would be learning to remain mindful in the midst of difficulty or chaos happening in the world.