Beronda L. Montgomery is writer, science communicator and plant biologist. She was named one of the journal Cell‘s Inspiring Black Scientists in America and awarded 2022 Cynthia Westcott Science Writing Award and 2023 Hutchinson Medal of the Chicago Horticultural Society. Dr. Montgomery is author of Lessons from Plants (Harvard University Press, 2021) and When Trees Testify (Holt, 2026).