Sallie Ann Glassman

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Glassman

Sallie Ann Glassman (born 1954) is a Vodou practicioner, author, artist and New Orleans, Louisiana personality who has appeared in numerous national newspapers and electronic media broadcasts.

Glassman has lectured extensively and has received international television, radio and magazine coverage, including a front page article in the New York Times and a feature on World News Tonight. She has received mention in other publications including Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal,, National Geographic and the Washington Post.

Island of Salvation Botanica on Piety Street in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans is adorned with artwork by Glassman.

Born in Maine and of Jewish-Ukrainian heritage, Glassman has been practicing Vodou in New Orleans since 1977 and is one of few White Americans to have been ordained via the traditional Haitian initiation. She owns "Island of Salvation Botanica", a store and art gallery with religious supplies, medicinal herbs, and Haitian and local artworks.

She appears in the film Hexing A Hurricane.