Donelle Wedderburn is a Jamaican-American writer and sonic teaching artist who explores how memory and land shape one another. Exploring 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, BBC, and Food Culture Collective.

Her 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.

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