An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer: On Living in Reciprocity with the Natural World
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CIIS Public Programs is honored to host Robin Wall Kimmerer, celebrated author of the bestselling books, Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry. As a mother, scientist, professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin invites us to reimagine our relationship with the natural world through the lens of reciprocity, gratitude, and respect. Her work bridges indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge and reinforces how we can understand ecology by listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us.
The author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology, Robin is dedicated not only to restoration of ecological communities but to restoration of our relationship to land. Her latest project, Plant, Baby, Plant, a response to the extractive and destructive mantra: ”Drill, Baby, Drill”, is a grassroots movement that invites people to take meaningful regenerative action to care for the Earth.
The author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology, Robin is dedicated not only to restoration of ecological communities but to restoration of our relationship to land. Her latest project, Plant, Baby, Plant, a response to the extractive and destructive mantra: ”Drill, Baby, Drill”, is a grassroots movement that invites people to take meaningful regenerative action to care for the Earth.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned her wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. In 2022, Braiding Sweetgrass was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. Robin’s newest book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (November 2024), is a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. Robin 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. In 2022, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.
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