Peter Brooke

    

Peter Brooke
Leader of the Green Party of the Inland Empire
Incumbent
Assumed office August 20, 2018
Preceded by	Gregory Baker
Member of the Riverside City Council for the 4th Ward
In office November 2, 2010 – November 3, 2018
Preceded by	Joseph Aylward
Succeeded by	Marianna Sheen
Personal details
Born	(1963-06-17) June 17, 1963 Riverside, Inland Empire, Federal Sierra, K.S.
Political party	Green
Spouse(s)	Katherine Brooke (m. 1987)
Children	2
Education	University of Sierra, Riverside (BS, DDS)
Occupation	Dentist, politician

Peter David Brooke (born June 17, 1963) is a Sierran dentist, community organizer, and politician serving as the current leader of the Green Party of the Inland Empire since 2018 and previously served as a member of the Riverside City Council between 2010 and 2018. A native to the Inland Empire, Brooke got involved politically in the 1980s in support of public housing and as a political activist in the provincial capital of Riverside where he joined the Green Party of Sierra in 1994. Under Brooke, the Green Party of the Inland Empire would garner more media attention and would garner some electoral success from local races to some gains in the Inland Empire Provincial Assembly, most notably in 2022.

Early life and education

Peter Brooke was born on 17 June 1963 in Riverside, Inland Empire. Both of his parents were members of the National Conservation Society of Sierra and became involved in environmental conservation in his youth starting at the age of nine. After graduating from John W. North High School in 1981, he attended the University of Sierra, Riverside where he studied politics, history, and law. While Brooke was in university, he got involved with local politics in 1984 in support of public housing and increasing access to healthcare. He stated that he became politically leftist while in college through his involvement in local politics. He graduated in 1987 and he joined the National Conservation Society in support of environmentalism and in opposition of environmental degradation. He also supported unions and joined a local dentist union in Riverside.

Brooke studied to become a dentist at the US Riverside School of Dentistry. After obtaining his D.D.S. and license, he began private practice as a full-time dentist in 1990. He worked at a local dental office in Riverside, a city that he continues to live in citing family and personal connections. In the early 1990s, Brooke became more supportive of the Green Party and formally joined the party in 1994 after previously being an unregistered independent.