Denise Alvarado is a New Orleans-born, native Creole raised in the Voodoo and hoodoo rich culture of New Orleans, Louisiana. She has studied indigenous healing traditions from a personal, professional and academic perspective for over four decades. She is the author of numerous books about southern conjure, including the Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook, Workin' in da Boneyard, and the first Hoodoo magazine - Hoodoo and Conjure. Her provocative artwork has been featured on National Geographic's Taboo, The Originals, Blue Bloods as well as in several books by other authors. She is a rootworker in the Louisiana Hoodoo tradition, a spiritual artist, and teacher of southern conjure at Crossroads University.