Moudou is a lifelong resident of the Detroit Southeast Michigan community. He spent his  formative years heavily immersed in outdoor stewardship activities passed down from his Great Grandfather. The frequent experiences of his family homestead farm gave him perspective unique to Black urban existence. Born to a labor Union steward and a Civil rights investigator, Moudou was heavily exposed to issues of the struggle for Black empowerment and general human suffrage issues. He spent his early teens doing political organizing and campaign work, petition signing, sit in, boycotts, civil disobedience on issues related to Black power and economic justice. He eventually became head of his University Black student alliance, here by fate he met luminaries in the African centered freedom school movement who encouraged him to use his talents as an educator for CIBI which was formerly called the Council of Independent Black Institutions. Here Baba Moudou began to recall and expand his early lessons on the farm and began brainstorming ways to create a food security curriculum. Along with his fellow comrade Chris Jackson he launched a food security curriculum for K-8 students. From there the positive impact resulted in the brainstorm acquisition and development of Dtown farm and the formal creation of the Black food Security Network. He spent several years developing home and school based aquaponic curriculums and systems, eventually working for the City of Detroit as an Environmental Educator. He has been an active member of the Black to the Land Coalition since its inception and feels he has finally found an organization that can addressed the environmental health of Black people wholistically.