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Alcenya Crowley (1926 – 2010) was an American-born Canadian educator and activist.
She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and was educated at the Minneapolis School of Business. She married William Richard "Buddy" Crowley in 1951 and moved to Toronto with him. Crowley worked in a law office, in an accountant's office, at the Metropolitan Children's Aid Society and then as a secretary for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She studied marketing at Ryerson University; her husband died from cancer around the same time. She earned a degree in political science from York University. She later taught business for the Toronto District School Board, retiring in 1991.
Crowley joined the Canadian Negro Women's Association (CANEWA), later the Congress of Black Women of Canada. She served as vice-president from 1957 to 1958 and as president from 1959 to 1960. She represented CANEWA at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.
Crowley died in Credit Valley Hospital at the age of 84.