Alice Faulkner Burch

Born in Oxnard, California, to Cleo and Elwanda Faulkner, Alice Faulkner Burch  received her associate degree from Oxnard College. She is a historian of the Black American experience in Utah and the American West, and is the editor of My Lord He Calls Me: Stories of Faith By Black American Latter-day Saints (Deseret Book, 2022). 

Alice serves on the Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board and the Utah chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. As part of their commitment to making Utah a better place for Black Americans, Alice and her husband, Robert Burch, co-founded the Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to researching, preserving, and teaching Utah’s Black American history. Alice serves as director of special events on Sema Hadithi’s executive committee. She is also a founding member of the Utah Black Roundtable, and serves on the Utah Juneteenth Organizing Committee.

She enjoys writing, cross-stitching, and participating in the dying art of whole-cloth quilting—a skill she learned to honor her maternal grandmother.