An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Seating is limited. Free and open to the public.
An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Moving Beyond Gratitude: Our Responsibility to Develop a New Narrative for our World”
6:00 pm
Hosmer Hall
Book signing and refreshments to follow, with a limited supply of books available for purchase.
This LoKo Arts project is made possible by the generosity and artistic vision of Kathryn (Kofoed) '54 and Donald Lougheed (Hon.'54).
Planned in partnership with the Potsdam Native American Initiative.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
… is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.
Robin tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer 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, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD 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. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.