Robin Wall Kimmerer is an American Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and works to use her expertise to bring together Indigenous science and Western science.
In addition to writing numerous academic articles for science journals, she is the author of Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003) and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013). She has won numerous awards, including the John Burroughs Medal Award for her book, Gathering Moss, and a 2022 MacArthur "Genius" award.
Monique Gray Smith is a Canadian author of books for children and young adults as well as having worked as a psychiatric nurse in Indigenous communities for many years. She is of Cree, Lakota, and Scottish descent and lives in British Columbia, Canada. Her books have won a number of awards, including the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.
| Have a question or comment about these guides? Contact: libraryreference@fitnyc.edu |