Linda Besant graduated from Lewis and Clark College with a Bachelor of Music degree and taught for several years in the Beaverton School District. She left music education to work in the not-for-profit sector, including co-founding and serving as executive director of Shared Outdoor Adventure Recreation, a therapeutic recreation program for people with physical disabilities. After falling in love with ballet and Oregon Ballet Theatre in 1994, Linda made a lateral shift from music history to dance history. She began volunteering with OBT in 1997, and has worked for OBT as a ballet historian and speaker since 2004.
