Robin Wall Kimmerer
Potawatomi botanist, educator, and author (born 1953)
Biography
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born September 13, 1953) is a Potawatomi botanist, author, and the former director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
As a scientist and a Native American, Kimmerer is informed in her work by both Western science and Indigenous environmental knowledge.
Kimmerer has written numerous scientific articles and the books Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013), The Democracy of Species (2021) and The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024). She narrated an audiobook version of Braiding Sweetgrass, released in 2016. Braiding Sweetgrass was republished in 2020 with a new introduction.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Notable works
- Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
- Braiding Sweetgrass
Awards & honours (4)
- John Burroughs Medal
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- National Humanities Medal
- Time 100
Quick answers about Robin Wall Kimmerer
- How old is Robin Wall Kimmerer?
- Robin Wall Kimmerer is 73 years old (born 1953).
- Where was Robin Wall Kimmerer born?
- Robin Wall Kimmerer was born in New York.
- What is Robin Wall Kimmerer's nationality?
- Robin Wall Kimmerer is a citizen of United States.
- What does Robin Wall Kimmerer do?
- Robin Wall Kimmerer is known as naturalist, environmentalist, plant ecologist, ecologist.
