About Linda
Linda Sutton is an international performing and recording artist with extensive experience
in designing and facilitating cultural educational programming and entertainment for
main-stream, as well as ethnic audiences of all ages. She received her B.S. in Public
Health with a concentration in Health Policy and Administration from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sutton is a professional dancer of world dance forms and
motivational speaker.
Linda has been living a vegan lifestyle for ten years.
In her professional health work, she has worked with the University of North Carolina
School of Nursing as a research assistant on issues of obesity in adolescents, worked
with Planned Parenthood on health care reform education initiatives, and worked at
Accenture at their renowned Health Strategy Center.
After leaving Accenture, Linda pursued a career in professional dance and cultural arts,
traveling around the world training and studying with various dance companies and
schools. Her recent cultural immersion in South America led to a master certification for
tango teachers in 2005 from the School of Argentine Tango.
She has served as a principal dancer and artistic director of a number of professional
dance and cultural arts companies including the Chris Thompson and Cultural
Ensemble in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Kabaka Dancers and Drummers in
Charlotte. She has been a teaching artist for the North Carolina Dance Theatre. She has
served as faculty at the Community School of the Arts in Charlotte, as well as the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Johnson C. Smith Universities.
She was the co-founder of Virginia Beach based EmotionL Dance International, and is
the founder and artistic director of Charlotte-based Spirit TranscenDance World Dance
Company.
Linda has appeared and performed on television shows in the US and abroad, reaching
millions of viewers.
She has published a number of articles as a special features and travel writer for the
Charlotte Post Newspaper and she has released two music recordings.
She has received a number of original awards from the North Carolina Arts Council
including the 2004 Choreographers’ Fellowship, as well as Arts and Science Council,
and Special opportunity grants in culture and education. All of these financial awards
have aided her in being able to reach hundreds of thousands through her work and
millions through the media.
Throughout the past decade, Linda has continued her work in public health by working
with various health food companies on various educational efforts, most notably as co-
designer and co-facilitator of a North Carolina statewide lecture and food preparation
tour called “U Do it Raw and Live, an introduction to raw and live food lifestyles”,
sponsored by Flora, Inc.
Linda is currently working together with Etta Vinik, the Director of Education at the Strelitz
Diabetes Institutes, to generate nutrition and exercise intervention programs, which will
be field tested here in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia that will provide the foundation
for the future development of written programming to be distributed nationally, as well as
multimedia driven educational initiatives (e.g. cell phone driven, the use of television and
other means of communicating these concepts further.)
Linda is now joining efforts with Dr. Neal D. Barnard, the scientist, physician, and author
leading the study discovering the impact of the vegan diet on diabetes as a guest
speaker in Norfolk, Virginia.
With her varied talents and experiences, Linda has plans to weave together these
various experiences to create projects that will result in a “renaissance of veganism”,
integrating her ten-year experience as a vegan.
Linda Sutton is an international performing and recording artist with extensive experience
in designing and facilitating cultural educational programming and entertainment for
main-stream, as well as ethnic audiences of all ages. She received her B.S. in Public
Health with a concentration in Health Policy and Administration from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sutton is a professional dancer of world dance forms and
motivational speaker.
Linda has been living a vegan lifestyle for ten years.
In her professional health work, she has worked with the University of North Carolina
School of Nursing as a research assistant on issues of obesity in adolescents, worked
with Planned Parenthood on health care reform education initiatives, and worked at
Accenture at their renowned Health Strategy Center.
After leaving Accenture, Linda pursued a career in professional dance and cultural arts,
traveling around the world training and studying with various dance companies and
schools. Her recent cultural immersion in South America led to a master certification for
tango teachers in 2005 from the School of Argentine Tango.
She has served as a principal dancer and artistic director of a number of professional
dance and cultural arts companies including the Chris Thompson and Cultural
Ensemble in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Kabaka Dancers and Drummers in
Charlotte. She has been a teaching artist for the North Carolina Dance Theatre. She has
served as faculty at the Community School of the Arts in Charlotte, as well as the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Johnson C. Smith Universities.
She was the co-founder of Virginia Beach based EmotionL Dance International, and is
the founder and artistic director of Charlotte-based Spirit TranscenDance World Dance
Company.
Linda has appeared and performed on television shows in the US and abroad, reaching
millions of viewers.
She has published a number of articles as a special features and travel writer for the
Charlotte Post Newspaper and she has released two music recordings.
She has received a number of original awards from the North Carolina Arts Council
including the 2004 Choreographers’ Fellowship, as well as Arts and Science Council,
and Special opportunity grants in culture and education. All of these financial awards
have aided her in being able to reach hundreds of thousands through her work and
millions through the media.
Throughout the past decade, Linda has continued her work in public health by working
with various health food companies on various educational efforts, most notably as co-
designer and co-facilitator of a North Carolina statewide lecture and food preparation
tour called “U Do it Raw and Live, an introduction to raw and live food lifestyles”,
sponsored by Flora, Inc.
Linda is currently working together with Etta Vinik, the Director of Education at the Strelitz
Diabetes Institutes, to generate nutrition and exercise intervention programs, which will
be field tested here in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia that will provide the foundation
for the future development of written programming to be distributed nationally, as well as
multimedia driven educational initiatives (e.g. cell phone driven, the use of television and
other means of communicating these concepts further.)
Linda is now joining efforts with Dr. Neal D. Barnard, the scientist, physician, and author
leading the study discovering the impact of the vegan diet on diabetes as a guest
speaker in Norfolk, Virginia.
With her varied talents and experiences, Linda has plans to weave together these
various experiences to create projects that will result in a “renaissance of veganism”,
integrating her ten-year experience as a vegan.
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