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Kristopher Peters, Chair of the Squaxin Island Tribe has been named to the Board of Trustees for The Evergreen State College

Kristopher Peters, Chair of Squaxin Island Tribe, named to The Evergreen State College Board of Trustees

OLYMPIA – Governor Jay Inslee makes a second historic appointment of a Tribal Chair to a college board by naming Kristopher Peters, Chair of the Squaxin Island Tribe, to The Evergreen State College Board of Trustees. Inslee named Suquamish Tribe Chair, Leonard Forsman, to the University of Washington’s Board of Regents last month. Evergreen’s Board of Trustees is an eight-member governing board that provides long-term strategic leadership, initiates policy and delegates authority to the college president.