Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling collection of essays Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. 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.
Awards
Midwest Booksellers Choice Award
Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award
John Burroughs Medal
2022 MacArthur Fellowship
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Milkweed Staff – 09/20/2023
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San Antonio, TX — 11/04/2024
Join Robin Wall Kimmerer for the DeCoursey Lecture Series at Trinity University.