Donelle Wedderburn is a Jamaican-American writer and teaching artist who explores how memory and land shape one another. Exploring how stories can be carried across landscapes, built environments, and collective memory. They have contributed to the development and production of broadcasts and audio documentaries for NPR, BBC, and Food Culture Collective.

Their practice is currently expanding by merging sonic art with architecture and textiles. Focusing on how sound and Black spatial histories can inform the design of immersive and site-responsive environments. At RISD, she continues to explore how narrative and landscape can move beyond the page into architectural and spatial forms.

She draws connections between literature and landscapes, inspired by Black women writers such as Toni Morrison and June Jordan. Artists who move fluidly between narrative and spatial imagination. They see storytelling as a practice that can shape not only language, but also the spaces we inhabit.