Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In addition to Braiding Sweetgrass, she is the author of Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. In 2012, Kimmerer gave a TED talk titled “Reclaiming the Honorable Harvest.”
Learn more about Robin Wall Kimmerer through the following resources:
- The Guardian interview: "People Can't Understand the World as a Gift Unless Someone Shows Them How."
- CBC: "Why is the world so beautiful? An Indigenous botanist on the spirit of life in everything."
- SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Join us for An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer on Thursday, October 21, 7-8:30 p.m. This special event will take place on Zoom and will be interpreted in American Sign Language (ASL). Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Click here to register.