[1] Matilde Lindo Crisanto was born on 7 June 1954 in Bilwi, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua, the second of three children (two daughters and a son).

Her parents were Harold Lindo, a Creole, and Imogene Crisanto, a Miskito, making her a Garifuna.

[2] In 1979, Lindo moved to Bilwi to work as a teacher for the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources and became a community leader through the Moravian Church.

A decade later in 1889, she began to become involved in Feminism and participated a meeting about gender and attended the first cycle of feminist training.

[3] Lindo was part of the Women's Network Against Violence and in 2003 moved to Managua to join its Coordinating Commission.