Five times 15.
Gosh, you're all very well behaved, aren't you?
Good evening everyone.
I'm Alex Vincent and I'm a writer and an author of books including why Women Grow.
And I would love to welcome you all to Conway hall for this very special 5x15 event with Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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Five by Fifteen are delighted to host the second event with Robyn after her sellout lecture at Kew Gardens last night.
And I have hear word that there were no fewer than two standing ovations.
And I think it's fair to say that we're all pretty pleased about it too.
I will be speaking with her this evening about her incredible work as a botanist,
writer and a thinker.
As a person who has truly transformed how people navigate their interactions with the world around them,
it gives me great pleasure to introduce Robin.
She is a mother, a scientist,
a decorated professor and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
She is a professor of the Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
Robin's work celebrates our reciprocal relationship with nature and shows us how to awaken our ecological consciousness by learning from indigenous ways of knowing.
Her internationally best selling books,
Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss not only teach us about the biology of different organisms,