Robin Wall Kimmerer will come to campus for a presentation and Q & A to discuss the 2025 ORI selection and bestseller, "Braiding Sweetgrass."

As a botanist, Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are the oldest teachers. The book brings these two lenses of knowledge together.

Kimmerer's work has been featured on NPR's "On Being" and she has addressed the United Nations. Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, as well as the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

Persons with disabilities, needing accommodations to attend this event, should contact Erin Timbello at 315-312-2232 at least one week in advance of the event.