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Common Read 2023: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

This resource guide encourages readers to engage with Hampshire College's 2023 Common Read selection, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants"

Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

         Photo from https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/about
  • Dr Kimmerer's website More about her writing and upcoming events.
  • Faculty profile on State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF). Dr Kimmerer is currently Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY ESF.

 

Listen to Robin Wall Kimmerer read an excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass (Play time 3 minutes 53 seconds)

 

Read additional biographical information available from the library database Gale Biography in Context.