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Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the award winning author of New York Times Bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Winner of the 2005 John Burroughs Medal Award for Natural History Writing Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, as well as several impactful essay and short stories others. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

“As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?” This story is available as a 45:05 minute audio version as narrated by the author. A worthy choice or can be read at your leisure.

Both written and audio content for this discussion can be found by clicking here https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/