Brushwood Center
Chicago Botanic Garden
1000 Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL 60022
United States
This event is ticketed and open to the public. Learn more about sponsorship opportunities and purchase tickets here.
Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Chicago Botanic Garden for the 42nd Smith Nature Awards Dinner, presented by Brushwood Center as their largest fundraiser of the year. Kimmerer will be the recipient of the Environmental Leadership Award.
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.
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Robin Wall Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons.