Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer
Kimmerer in 2023
Born	(1953-09-13) September 13, 1953 (age 70)
Nationality	Citizen Potawatomi Nation,[1] American
Alma mater	BS, SUNY-ESF MS, PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known for	Scholarship on traditional ecological knowledge and moss ecology; Outreach to tribal communities; Creative writing
Awards	John Burroughs Medal Award, for Gathering Moss; MacArthur Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields	Plant ecology, Botany
Institutions	SUNY-ESF; Centre College; Transylvania University
Thesis	Vegetation Development and Community Dynamics in a Dated Series of Abandoned Lead-Zinc Mines in Southwestern Wisconsin  (1983)
Website	www.esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer/

Robin Wall Kimmerer (born September 13, 1953) is a Potawatomi botanist, author, and the 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, her work is informed by both Western science and indigenous environmental knowledge.^[1]

Kimmerer has written numerous scientific articles and the books Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013). She narrated an audiobook version released in 2016. Braiding Sweetgrass was republished in 2020 with a new introduction.