Alexandra St Tellien is a Haitian PhD student in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University and a Woodruff Fellow. With a BA in linguistics from the University of Florida and an MA in anthropology (linguistic) from Georgia State University (GSU), her areas of interest are Africana religions at the intersection of language, culture, and meaning and African-derived ritual and sacred languages and communications. Alexandra’s doctoral research, currently supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow Program (NSF GRFP), investigates Langaj (Haitian Vodou ritual language) as a language of devotion that connects Vodou practitioners to various West and Central African communities and lineages in deep and meaningful ways. Alexandra worked in Dr. Burnet’s lab from 2023 until 2024 as a graduate research assistant and county lead. During her time in the lab, Alexandra published Abolition as Process in the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s Column in Anthropology News.