Peter Kirgis
Biography
Peter spent most of his childhood on Long Island, New York, before moving to Missoula, Montana, in high school. He graduated from Williams College in 2020, where he majored in political economy and philosophy and minored in cognitive science. After graduating, he served with AmeriCorps VISTA as a data analyst at Emmaus, a homeless shelter and affordable housing developer in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He then worked as a data analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he worked on data privacy, inter-agency data sharing, and analytics projects. Peter was selected to intern as a Data Scientist Fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington this summer, as part of the Coding it Forward Fellowship program. After graduating from Princeton, Peter hopes to continue working in the public sector designing systems and strategies to improve government service evaluation.