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Robin Kimmerer is a mother, plant ecologist, writer and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. She serves as the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. She is active in efforts to broaden access to environmental science education for Native students, and to create new models for integration of indigenous philosophy and scientific tools on behalf of land and culture.

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Robin Kimmerer: Land Justice

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Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, is the acclaimed author of *Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants*. She serves as a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and founded the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

Kimmerer's significant contributions have earned her the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing and a MacArthur "genius" grant. Her research focuses on restoring ecological communities and our relationship with the land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending both cultivated and wild gardens.

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