A founding principal of Mt. Auburn Associates, Peter draws from over 25 years of experience in the economic development field. In addition to extensive work in broad-based local and regional strategic planning, Peter has particular expertise in formulating targeted strategies to address economic inequalities. Working at the intersections of regional and community-based economic development, he designs workforce development, entrepreneurship, and commercial revitalization strategies that create economic opportunities for distressed communities and disadvantaged populations by linking them more closely to regional industries, markets, and institutions.

Peter recently authored economic development strategies for the cities of New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana as part of comprehensive master planning processes He has developed neighborhood business and workforce development strategies for a number of community development corporations in the Boston area, and has participated in multi-disciplinary planning teams developing comprehensive revitalization strategies for neighborhoods in Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio and Savannah, Georgia. He served for several years as an advisor to the Annie E. Casey Jobs Initiative, a multi-year demonstration program testing multiple approaches to increasing employment for low-income residents of six cities.

Active in Boston's community development for over 25 years, Peter played a long-term leadership role for one of Boston's leading community development corporations, and was a founding member of a nonprofit organization in an inner-ring Boston suburb that supports economic development through environmental, health, and recreational initiatives.

Before founding Mt. Auburn Associates, Peter was an associate at Counsel for Community Development, an early leader in the development finance field. Peter holds a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a B.A. in American History from Brown University.