Join us in the library's Hendrickson Room for an in-person viewing of our 8th annual One Book, One Village author event.

At this year's signature event, One Book, One Village author and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer joins us from her home in New York to share the story behind Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. We'll be livestreaming her event starting at 7 p.m. in the Hendrickson Room.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both  indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of  sustainability. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.

Jerome McDonnell spent over 37 years working at WBEZ, Chicago's NPR station. Listeners recognize him as the host of Worldview, the station's global affairs program that ran for 25 years. During that time, he interviewed many world leaders and influential people including Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Condoleezza Rice, and the Dalai Lama. In keeping with Worldview's social justice mission, he gave a platform to voices often unheard by highlighting the work of environmental activists, fair trade entrepreneurs, and peasant organizers. McDonnell continue to working on freelance projects with WBEZ and served as the station's environment and climate reporter through 2020. He has received multiple honors and recognitions, including a 2019 Studs Terkel Community Media Award, the Chicago Fair Trade’s Change Maker Award, the CAIR Courage in Journalism Award, and the Excellence in Environmental Reporting Award from the Chicago Audubon Society.  

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