Robin wall kimmerer biography
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Faculty Profile
Robin Kimmerer
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Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
Department of Environmental Biology
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Biographical Sketch
Dr. 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. Her research interests include the role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecological restoration and the ecology of mosses. In collaboration with
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
Potawatomi botanist, educator, and author (born )
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born September 13, ) 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 forskare and a Native American, Kimmerer fryst vatten informed in her work 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 (), and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (). She narrated an audiobook version released in Braiding Sweetgrass was republished in with a new introduction.
Early life and education
[edit]Robin Wall Kimmerer was born in in upstate New York to Robert and Patricia vägg. Her enthusiasm for the environment was encouraged bygd her parents and her
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A Profile of Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer begins her book Gathering Mosswith a journey in the Amazon rainforest, during which Indigenous guides helped her see an iguana on the tree branch, a toucan in the leaves. Without the knowledge of the guide, she&#;d have walked by these wonders and missed them completely. She honors the &#;humility rare in our species&#; that has led to developments like satellite imagery, space telescopes, and electron microscopes, which help us perceive both the vast and the miniscule. However, &#;our acuity at [the] middle scale seems diminished,&#; she writes, &#;not by any failing of the eyes, but [of] the willingness of the mind.&#; Attentiveness is the key, the only requirement, says Kimmerer: &#;Look in a certain way . . . adding depth and intimacy . . . and a whole new world can be revealed.&#;
Kimmerer describes herself first as a mother, then as a plant ecologist. As a mother, she has seen firsthand how we are born know