Linda Dabo: Biography


​Linda Dabo: Biography

​Linda Dabo is an independent blogger, volunteer Wikipedia editor, and lifelong learner with over twelve years of digital content creation experience. Throughout her career, her work has seamlessly intersected human culture, ecosystem stewardship, and decentralized community knowledge networks.

​Academic Foundation & Early Visual Studies

​During her college years, Linda attended Sonoma State University in California, where she formally studied cultural and physical anthropology. Recognizing the deep connection between human communities and their environments, she complemented her foundational anthropological studies by taking coursework in ecology and filmmaking. This multidisciplinary background laid the groundwork for her future media documentation and environmental preservation initiatives.

​Environmental  and Sustainable Development & Permaculture

​Linda has dedicated decades to sustainable development, community-led reforestation, and biological independence. She committed 14 years of service to the Belize River Valley Development initiative, working under the close guidance and mentorship of sustainable development mentor Bert Tucker. Her dedication to ecological regeneration deepened in 2009, when she became involved with the Permaculture Institute in Techiman, Ghana. Working closely alongside Paul Yeboah, she continues to focus on natural soil building, ecological succession, and establishing self-contained loops via self-multiplying perennial agriculture.

​Community Archiving & Study 

​In addition to her environmental work, Linda has long been a champion for preserving local histories and safeguarding traditional ecological knowledge from external narratives. In 2006, she served as an active member of the Ghana Nkwanta Project based in New York City. Later, from 2020 to 2022, she established and led Alkebulan, an independent online study group designed to keep communities connected and engaged during periods of regional containment.

​As a dedicated digital literacy advocate, Linda also designs specialized curriculum and workshop structures for youth, teaching children essential research and content creation skills for online encyclopedias. Her work emphasizes an analog-first hybrid workflow—utilizing physical notebooks and hand-drafted research to synthesize complex ideas before moving them to digital platforms.

​Global Collaborations

​Operating from her current home base in Brooklyn, New York, Linda continuously collaborates with grassroots coordinators, local field guides, archivists, and filmmakers on international documentation projects across West and East Africa. Whether organizing collaborative diaspora knowledge equity workshops at international conferences or analyzing the environmental impacts of infrastructure on local communities, Linda remains guided by a state of grounded, neutral calm and a profound curiosity about the world.

Projects

Ogiek Study Curriculum

Mijikenda Peoples Kenya




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