With Robin Wall Kimmerer, Author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

REPEAT SHOW (from 2016). Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Robin is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the widely acclaimed “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” (Milkweed Editions, 2013). In 2022, the was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. This new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers—the plants around us. Robin’s first book, “Gathering Moss,” was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Robin’s writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. Robin tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s “On Being” with Krista Tippett and has addressed the general assembly of the U.N. about “Healing Our Relationships with Nature.” She lives in Syracuse, NY where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. As a writer and a scientist, Robin’s interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities but also restoration of our relationships to land. Robin holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, and MS and Ph.D. 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. In 2022, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. For more information about Robin, visit https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/