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Who is Robin Wall Kimmerer?
Short answer
A botanist and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and founded the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, and she wrote Braiding Sweetgrass.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Potawatomi botanist who teaches plant ecology at SUNY and founded the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Her book Braiding Sweetgrass argues that Indigenous knowledge and scientific knowledge belong together. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2022 and received the National Humanities Medal in 2023.
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