Jean-Daniel Lafontant 

For 25 years, Jean-Daniel Lafontant was a professional marketing executive. Additionally, he spent a few years working for the Haitian Government, including two as a diplomat. Lafontant is a Vodou initiate and healer, who’s area of expertise includes Haitian art and culture. In 1997, he founded the sacred Vodou temple Na-Ri-VéH 777. He has worked as a producer for various media and has appeared in a handful of films.  Among them, an episode of “Believers” for CNN; and the British documentaries “Caribbean with Simon Reeves” for BBC and “Hidden Caribbean with Joanna Lumley” for TV4. As a Houngan, cultural entrepreneur, and art specialist, Lafontant spends his time in various places and consults museums, universities, and cultural institutions worldwide.Lafontant’s conversation with Moira Ivana Millán, The Earth's Remembrance, was most recently published in Duke University journal of critical thinking.