Robin Wall Kimmerer

Dec 02 • Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement

7:00pm

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer delivers a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.

In her new bestseller, The Serviceberry, Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds and considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most?

Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In 2022 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and in 2015 addressed the United Nation on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.”