Donelle Wedderburn is a Jamaican-American writer and sonic teaching artist whose work sits at the intersection of Black history, oral storytelling, and landscape architecture. She explores how memory and land shape one another, and how stories can be carried across landscapes, built environments, and collective memory.

She has contributed to the development and production of broadcasts and audio documentaries for NPR, Food Culture Collective, and the HEAL Food Alliance. Her practice is currently expanding by merging sonic art with landscape 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.

In her free time, she writes poetry and draws connections between literature and landscape. Inspired by Black women writers such as Toni Morrison and June Jordan, who moved fluidly between narrative and spatial imagination. She sees storytelling as a practice that can shape not only language, but also land, cities, and the spaces we inhabit.