The Newark Earthworks, The Ohio State University and Central Ohio Technical College are thrilled to announce an upcoming author talk featuring Robin Wall Kimmerer, renowned botanist and author of "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants."
The author talk is on Monday, March 27, at 5 p.m. at the John Gilbert Reese Center. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Participants can register at go.osu.edu/braiding_sweetgrass.
Following the talk, a book signing will take place. Free books are available for the first 100 registrants!
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. At the event, Kimmerer will explore the central ideas of her book, which center around the acknowledgment and celebration of our relationship with the natural world and the importance of this acknowledgment to the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness. As an Indigenous scientist and writer, Kimmerer's work is both visionary and practical, offering a powerful vision for a more just and ecologically vibrant future.