Robin Wall Kimmerer, Live at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Braiding Sweetgrass
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Lady Lisa Sainsbury Lecture Theatre, Jodrell Gate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, TW9 3DS
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The extraordinary writer Robin Wall Kimmerer joins 5x15 at Kew Gardens in May for an exclusive lecture on plants and ecology.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Centre for Native Peoples and the Environment. Her current work spans traditional ecological knowledge, moss ecology, outreach to tribal communities and creative writing. Her internationally bestselling books, Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss, not only teach us about the biology of different organisms, but show us other ways of living in the world. It is through celebrating our reciprocal relationship with nature that we can awaken our ecological consciousness, and better protect the extraordinary gifts of the natural world.