An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer: On Living in Reciprocity with the Natural World

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CIIS Public Programs is honored to host Robin Wall Kimmerer, celebrated author of the bestselling books, Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry. As a mother, scientist, professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin invites us to reimagine our relationship with the natural world through the lens of reciprocity, gratitude, and respect. Her work bridges indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge and reinforces how we can understand ecology by listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us. The author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology, Robin is dedicated not only to restoration of ecological communities but to restoration of our relationship to land. Her latest project, Plant, Baby, Plant, a response to the extractive and destructive mantra: ”Drill, Baby, Drill”, is a grassroots movement that invites people to take meaningful regenerative action to care for the Earth.