Habiba Addo is a native of Ghana and a guest teacher and performer for Portland Public Schools. She has performed and taught dance, rhythm and stories from Ghana, Guinea, Gambia and Senegal, in the United States and internationally for over fifteen years. She also educates on the rich African cultures present today in Cuba and Brazil.

Through her years of educating and performing, Habiba has been affiliated with many notable local and national organizations, including: Young Audiences, White Bird, the Oregon Ballet Theater and the Northwest Afrikan American Ballet, as well as the Milagro Bailadores and the Portland State University World Dance Office. She is a recipient of the Lila Jewel award, as well as the Arts Alive grant and multiple technical assistant grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

With her passion for preserving and rejuvenating cultural education through storytelling in her daily work, Habiba has begun collecting folktales from all across Ghana in an effort to publish a book that will highlight each unique region across the country, in an effort to revive cultural history and pride in a world so often forgotten by the advent of new technology and the homogenizing of cultures across the world.