Alcenya Crowley (April 3, 1926 – September 12, 2010), born Alcenya McElwain, was an American-born Canadian educator and activist.

Alcenya McElwain was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of William McElwain.^[1] She was educated at the Minneapolis School of Business. She later studied marketing at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and earned a degree in political science from York University.

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 later taught business for the Toronto District School Board, retiring in 1991.^[2]

Crowley joined the Canadian Negro Women's Association (CANEWA),^[3] 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 chaired CANEWA's first Calypso Carnival, drawing on the cultures of the organization's Caribbean-born members.^[2] She represented CANEWA at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.^[4]

She married a Canadian podiatrist, William Richard "Buddy" Crowley, in 1951, and moved to Toronto with him.^[2]

Crowley was widowed when her husband died in 1963;^[5] she died in Credit Valley Hospital in 2010, at the age of 84.^[6]

• Alcenya Crowley at Find a Grave
• Funké Omotunde Aladejebi, "'Girl You Better Apply to Teachers’ College': The History of Black Women Educators in Ontario, 1940s –1980s" (Ph.D. dissertation, York University 2016).