Alice T. Crowe

Ms. Crowe is a former freelance writer for the Rockland Journal News, a Gannett Company newspaper in New York. She wrote a weekly column, ‘What’s in a name. She currently sits on the Community Editorial Board for the Journal News. She also is a regular freelance small business and legal writer for . She currently writes for her blog .

She is completing a documentary film, “Secrets of the Hollow, the Hidden History of Blacks in Rockland County.” She did a work-in-progress screening of the film in 2009, at the Rivertown Film Festival in Nyack New York. She has received grants from the Arts Council of Rockland, The Rockland County Legislature, the Rockland County Women’s Bar Association, the Julius and Eleanor Kass Family Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation.

Ms. Crowe is a former member of the Board of Trustees for the African American Historical Society of Rockland County. Ms. Crowe is the author of, “How to Get Black on Track, a Self Empowerment Guide.” She is a member of the Louis Reyes Rivera Writer’s Workshop in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn, the Frank Silvera Playwriting Workshop, and the Fusion Gumbo Writer’s Workshop facilitated by Arthur French III.

Her stage play, The Workshop, won Atlanta Black Theater Festival Favorite Staged Reading 2014.

Crowe was born in the Bronx New York and grew up in Rockland County. She graduated from Adelphi University and Howard University School of Law. She practiced law in her own law firm, Crowe & Crowe, with her identical twin sister Alicia for over 18 years. She is admitted to the United States District Court, Eastern of New York, and Southern District of New York and the United States Supreme Court.

In 1997, she and her twin sister won the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Small Firm Pro Bono Award for Excellence. Ms. Crowe also graduated from Adelphi University with a B.A. in philosophy and political science with a minor in journalism.

Ms. Crowe is an entrepreneur; she and her twin sister helped launch her mother’s hot sauce, Emmaline’s All Natural Hot Sauce. In 2007 she and her family won the Whole Foods Market Local Hero award.