Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Garhering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Her writings haw appeared in Orion, O Magazine, and numerous scientific journals. She lives in Fablus, New York, where she is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

— biography from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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