Donté Alexander Ford is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is best described as a musician, minister, and scholar. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Music and Associate Chaplain for Worship Arts at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. As a scholar, Donte focuses on the history and preservation of Black American concert, popular, and sacred music; church hymnody; congregational song; and the history, theology, and music of African American Holiness and Pentecostal movements. His scholarly work includes lectures on African American choral art forms and contributions to the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology and UM Discipleship Ministries’ History of Hymns.