Robin Wall Kimmerer
Potawatomi botanist and author
Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer wrote the New York Times bestselling essay collection Braiding Sweetgrass.
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American Born 1953 in New York, United States
About Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer was born in 1953 and is a botanist and professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and she founded the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Her work draws on both Western science and Indigenous environmental knowledge. Braiding Sweetgrass first appeared in 2013 and was republished in 2020 with a new introduction. Kimmerer narrated an audiobook version, released in 2016. She has also written Gathering Moss, The Democracy of Species and The Serviceberry, along with many scientific articles. In 2022 she was named a MacArthur Fellow.