Beronda L. Montgomery
Beronda L. Montgomery is an award-winning plant biologist, dean at Grinnell College and author of the acclaimed Lessons from Plants (Harvard University Press, 2021). She has been named one of the journal Cell’s 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America, and was awarded the 2021 Cynthia Westcott Science Writing Award and 2022 Adolph E. Gude, Jr. Award for outstanding service to the science of plant biology. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Plant Biologists, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the American Academy of Microbiology.
Montgomery is currently at work on a book titled When Trees Testify: Seven Species that Bear Witness to Black Botanical Legacy, to be published in 2024 by Holt (World English).