Dr. Kimmerer is a mother, plant ecologist, writer, and State University of New York (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 and is engaged in programs which introduce the benefits of traditional ecological knowledge to the scientific community in a way that respects and protects indigenous knowledge. She is the author of "Gathering Moss," which was awarded the prestigious John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing. Her latest book, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants," received the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award.
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