Robin Wall Kimmerer’s authority spans Indigenous identity, botany, and teaching.

Evidence

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potowatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Her writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. 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. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1457

Categorization

• SEED: A final ‘About the Author’ blurb — establishes the hinge-author position in the polyad (scientist and enrolled Potawatomi member directing a Center bridging Native and environmental science), worth keeping as citation context for integrative writing.