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Join us for this signature event celebrating our 2021 One Book, One Village selection. Our 8th annual author and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer joins us from her home in New York to share the story behind Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. She will be joined in conversation by journalist and environmental reporter Jerome McDonnel, long time host of WBEZ's Worldview.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both  indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of  sustainability. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.

Jerome McDonnell spent over 37 years working at WBEZ, Chicago's NPR station. Listeners recognize him as the host of Worldview, the station's global affairs program that ran for 25 years. During that time, he interviewed many world leaders and influential people including Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Condoleezza Rice, and the Dalai Lama. In keeping with Worldview's social justice mission, he gave a platform to voices often unheard by highlighting the work of environmental activists, fair trade entrepreneurs, and peasant organizers. McDonnell continues working on freelance projects with WBEZ and served as the station's environment and climate reporter through 2020. He has received multiple honors and recognitions, including a 2019 Studs Terkel Community Media Award, the Chicago Fair Trade’s Change Maker Award, the CAIR Courage in Journalism Award, and the Excellence in Environmental Reporting Award from the Chicago Audubon Society.  

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New in 2021, we are excited to offer an opportunity to view this year's virtual One Book, One Village event together in Hendrickson Room. If you love to watch with your book club or just prefer the camaraderie of a live audience, join us at the library October 21 to view together. 

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This program is presented as part of One Book, One Village.