Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it must be lived forward.
— Søren Kierkegaard
Wes Alcenat is an historian, educator & thought-leader.
Dr. Alcenat is an Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Scripps College in Claremont, California where he teaches courses on nineteenth century United States, Atlantic, and Afro-Caribbean history. He is a native of Haiti and partly grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He currently spends his time between Southern California and Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.