Robin Wall Kimmerer (1953–) is a mother, plant ecologist, nature writer, and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the State University of New York’s College of Environment and Forestry (SUNY ESF) in Syracuse, New York.  She is also founding director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. 

Robin Wall Kimmerer has academic writings on the ecology of mosses and restoration ecology, she is the author of articles for magazines such as Orion, Sun, and Yes!. She also has written an essay for Robert Shetterly’s book, Portraits of Earth Justice (New Village Press, 2022). Kimmerer has authored the two award-winning books: Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2005) and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013). 

Kimmerer works with the Onondaga Nation and Haudenosaunee people of Central New York and with other Native American groups to support land rights actions and to restore land and water for future generations. She uses her science, writing and activism to support the hunger expressed by so many people for a “belonging in relationship to [the] land” that will sustain us all.

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