Kimmerer's efforts are motivated in part by her family history. Wider use of TEK by scholars has begun to lend credence to it. However, it also involves cultural and spiritual considerations, which have often been marginalized by the greater scientific community. Kimmerer is a proponent of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) approach, which Kimmerer describes as a "way of knowing." TEK is a deeply empirical scientific approach and is based on long-term observation.
It was while studying forest ecology as part of her degree program, that she first learnt about mosses, which became the scientific focus of her career. Kimmerer then moved to Wisconsin to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning her master's degree in botany there in 1979, followed by her PhD in plant ecology in 1983. She spent two years working for Bausch & Lomb as a microbiologist. Kimmerer remained near home for college, attending State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and receiving a bachelor's degree in botany in 1975. Kimmerer is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her enthusiasm for the environment was encouraged by her parents, who began to reconnect with their own Potawatomi heritage while living in upstate New York. Her time outdoors rooted a deep appreciation for the natural environment. Robin Wall Kimmerer was born in 1953 in Upstate New York to Robert and Patricia Wall. She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and combines her heritage with her scientific and environmental passions. Braiding Sweetgrass was republished in 2020 with a new introduction. An audiobook version was released in 2016, narrated by the author. She is the author of numerous scientific articles, and the books Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013). Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) 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 (SUNY-ESF). Vegetation Development and Community Dynamics in a Dated Series of Abandoned Lead-Zinc Mines in Southwestern Wisconsin (1983)
SUNY-ESF Centre College Transylvania University John Burroughs Medal Award, for Gathering Moss MacArthur Fellowship Her scholarship on traditional ecological knowledge, and moss ecology outreach to tribal communities creative writing
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