Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist, professor of environmental biology, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss, works that integrate Indigenous ecological knowledge with scientific research. As a scholar and storyteller, Kimmerer bridges Western science and Indigenous wisdom traditions, offering frameworks that honor both empirical inquiry and relational ethics. Her work centers on reciprocity, gratitude, and restoring respectful relationships between humans and the living world.