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July 17, 2025
An Evening on the Lake
ACES’ Summer Benefit for Environmental Education
at Hallam Lake Nature Preserve
Elizabeth Paepcke Visionary Award 2025
Robin Wall Kimmerer
About Robin Wall Kimmerer:
Robin Wall Kimmerer is an esteemed botanist, author, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. A SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, she is the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, which bridges Indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge for sustainability.
She is the author of the bestselling Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, as well as Gathering Moss, which won the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Her latest book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (November 2024), explores how gratitude, reciprocity, and community can shape a more sustainable future.
A MacArthur Fellow, Robin has addressed the United Nations on “Healing Our Relationship with Nature” and been featured on NPR’s On Being. Her work inspires a deeper connection to the land, emphasizing both ecological restoration and the renewal of our relationships with the natural world. She lives in upstate New York, where she tends gardens both cultivated and wild.
ACES also invites you to join them for the free, public William A. Nitze Community Lecture with Robin Wall Kimmerer on Friday, July 18 at 5 pm at Paepcke Auditorium. Registration will be open June 1. More information here.
