Phenomenal AKA's
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Not Only Are We Beautiful, We Are Brilliant...

A few prominent members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated:

Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, founder and "guiding light" of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Jane Addams, winner if Nobel Peace Prize, founder of Hull House in Chicago, Illinois and professionalized social work as a field study.

Marian Anderson, human rights activist, delegate to the United Nations, the first African-American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America.

Maya Angelou, first African-American poet to read at a presidential inauguration, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, award winning novelist and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America.

Yvette Lee Bowser, producer of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and A Different World, creator and executive producer of Living Single.

Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke, former congresswoman from California and the first women to chair the Democratic National Convention.

Angie Brookes, first woman President of the United Nations.

Gwendolyn Calvert Baker, PhD., President of the United States Committee for UNICEF.

Suzette Charles, second African-American to become Miss America, 1984.

Ella Fitzgerald, Internationally famous classical jazz artist, named outstanding performer of the year for eighteen consecutive years by Downbeat Magazine, the jazz industry bible and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America.

Bettiann Gueno Gardner, co-chairman of Soft Sheen Products.

Zina Garrison-Jackson, won gold medal in tennis doubles match during the 1998 Seoul Olympics.

Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant, advise columnist for Essence.

Dr. Marilyn Hughes-Gaston, Assistant Surgeon General.

Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American woman astronaut.

Star Jones, co-host of The View talk show, lawyer, former legal analyst for Inside Edition, Today and Nightly News.

Coretta Scott King, activist and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change and Civil Rights Activism and founder of The National Political Congress of Black Women, Inc.

Jewell Jackson McCabe, President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women and founder of The National Political Congress of Black Women, Inc.

Lt. Col. Anita McMiller, Deputy Legislative Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Bebe More Campbell, author of Brothers and Sisters and Your Blues ain't Like Mine.

Toni Morrison, author of Pulitzer Prize winning Beloved, first African-American to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America.

Hazel O'Leary, United States Secretary for the Department of Energy.

Rosa Parks, mother of the Civil Rights Movement and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America.

Jada Pinkett-Smith, accomplished actress whose movies include Set it Off, Menace to Society, and Jason's Lyric.

Sharon Pratt Kelly, first women to serve as a mayor of Washington, D.C.

Phylicia Rashad, actress staring on the award winning Cosby Show and Cosby television series.

C. Delores Tucker, National Chairman of the National Political Congress of Black Women.

Dr, Debbye Turner, humanitarian and Miss America, 1990.

Marjorie Judith Vincent, Miss America, 1991.

Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple, Civil Rights Activist, poet, and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America

Lynn Whitfield, humanitarian and actress staring in The Josephine Baker Story, Thin Line Between Love and Hate, and Eve's Bayou.

Sonia Sanchez, author and poet.

Eleanor Roosevelt, activist and wife of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Diane Watson, the first Black woman to preside over the California State Senate.

Jomarie Payton Noble, humanitarian and actress, star of Family Matters.

Leah Tutu, wife of South African activist Bishop Desmond Tutu.

Janice Huff, NBC Meteorologist and St. Louis Emmy Award Winner.

Marva Collins, founder of her own private school on Chicago's west side

AKA Lades
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Alpha Kappa Alpha membership has its privileges! By uniting our individual efforts we have built a strong, cohesive organization that positively impacts the lives of our families and communities. Our success is based on the depth of commitment, vision, and confidence of our members. This page is dedicated to recognizing the achievements that the current members of the Delta Gamma chapter have accomplished.

Carli Clay won two awards at the North Atlantic Region’s Undergraduate Round-up. Sororo Eveylne Sample-Oates presented Carli with the first award for being inducted into the region’s first ever 4.0 club for receiving a 4.0 grade point average Spring 2007. Soror Evelyn also presented Carli with her second award, which she received for having the second highest grade point average in the “Feel Good Region.”

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