Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (BOLLI)

Evergreen: The Trees that Shaped America

Portrait of Trent Preszner wearing rectangular glasses and a dark sweater over a black shirt. He faces the camera with a neutral expression against a solid black background with soft studio lighting.

Professor Trent Priszner, Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Thursday, April 23, at 1 p.m., in-person at 60 Turner StreetEvergreen: The Trees That Shaped America - Hardcover – Infinity Light

Bio: Trent Preszler is a professor of practice in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University and director of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation’s Planetary Solutions Initiative. His first book, Little and Often: A Memoir, hit #1 on the Amazon Books Best Seller list and was named a USA Today Best Book of the Year in 2021. His second book, Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America, was longlisted for the 2026 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

Preszler grew up on a cattle ranch in South Dakota and attended a one-room schoolhouse on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. After college at Iowa State University, he served as a White House intern for President Bill Clinton. He holds an MS in agricultural economics and a PhD in horticultural biology from Cornell University.

A former winemaker and wooden boatbuilder, Preszler’s life was profiled in a documentary that won a New York Emmy Award in 2017.