Alpha Kappa Alpha Members among "Ebony" Magazine's 'Power 150'
 

Eleven members make prestigious list
Eleven members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority were featured in Ebony magazine's "Power 150" list, which is in the May 2007 issue. Subtitled, "The Most Influential Blacks in America," the listing reflects the scope, power and impact of African Americans.

Members recognized in the magazine cross several disciplines and underscore the contributions made by the Sorority on several leadership levels. Led by AKA's international president, members on the list include:

ORGANIZATION LEADERS

Barbara A. McKinzie – International President, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Gwendolyn B. Lee – President, The Links, Inc.
Juanita Head Walton – President, National Order of Women Legislators; Chairman, National Foundation of Women Legislators

BUSINESS

Catherine Hughes – Chairperson, Radio One

POLITICS & LAW

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (Texas)
U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas)
U.S. Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (California)*
U.S. Rep. Diane E. Watson (California)
Kamala Harris - San Francisco District Attorney

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Suzanne DePasse – CEO, DePasse Entertainment

EDUCATION

Maya Angelou – Poet; author; Lifetime Chair, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of American Studies, Wake Forest University, NC

* Juanita Millender-McDonald passed soon after the issue was released.

Skeeeeee Wee!
Our sorors are very impressive indeed. I want to be like them when I grow up. :) How can one not want to be in the company of these kinds of women.

Now I want nothing to do with the business world, but this soror in our grad chapter came to speak at our program about being financially savvy and we were all blown away by her determination, ingenuity, and finesse. She makes up her mind to accomplish something (especially what others don't believe she can do) and God save any obstacle in her way.

__________________________________________________ ____________________________

Gwendolyn Smith Iloani

Ms. Iloani is Chairman, President and CEO of Smith Whiley & Company, a privately owned investment firm. The Firm is headquartered in Hartford and has an office in Evanston, Illinois. Smith Whiley is the largest female and black female-owned private equity firm in the country. The Firm specializes in management buyouts, recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth capital, and makes private equity and mezzanine investments. Smith Whiley has invested in 25 portfolio companies. Ms. Iloani directs the firm’s investment advisory and asset management business.

Ms. Iloani has received several community service and business leadership awards from the Hartford and New York City communities. In November 2006, Ms. Iloani received the prestigious Chase Medallion for entrepreneurial leadership. In September 2006, Ms. Iloani was appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System as a Distinguished Business Executive in Residence at Eastern Connecticut State University for the 2006 – 2007 Academic Year. Other recent awards include: One of the “75 Most Powerful Blacks on Wall Street” Award (2006); The Anti-Defamation League Greater Hartford Torch of Liberty Award (2006); One of the “50 Most Powerful Black Women in Business” Award (2006); The West Indian Foundation Award (2005); The BISA 2004 Distinguished Black Woman Award; The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 2004 Woman of the Year (Connecticut Chapter); The American Foundation for the University of the West Indies Vice Chancellor’s Achievement Award (2004); WKND Black History Month Award (2004); National Conference of Community and Justice Human Right s Award (2003); Women of Great Esteem Business and Finance. Ms. Iloani has also received several citations from the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford which acknowledges her firm’s success in the business field. Ms. Iloani also was featured in the 2004 Calendar of Distinguished Black Women by the Black Women in Sisterhood For Action organization, an organization dedicated to providing financial and mentoring support to young women in college.

Ms. Iloani’s professional affiliations include: Charter Member of the Marathon Club; the Colgate University Alumni Club, the National Association of Securities Professionals, and The Hartford Club. Ms. Iloani is a member of the Epsilon Omicron Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She is also a life member of the NAACP. Ms. Iloani has three sons, twins Brandon and Byron (9 years old) and Corey (13.5 years old).

My prophyte SOROR MIA HEASTON was crowned Miss Illinois 2007....she is beautiful inside and out!!! She was born from the Epsilon Epsilon Chapter!


www.epsilonepsilon1908.com ---> sign the guestbook :)

Google Miss Illinois/ Mia Heaston

It is truly a Blessed Holiday!!!
 

Sorors, sisterfriends and fellow greeks, I just received this email this morning:

Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:14:33 -0000
Subject: Your Submission

Title: Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance in Wrn null mice fed a diabetogenic diet
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Dear Drs.:

We are now pleased to inform you that your paper "Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance in Wrn null mice fed a diabetogenic diet" has been accepted for publication in Mechanisms of Ageing and Development.

Thank you for submitting your work to the journal.

Sincerely,

Editor-in-Chief
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Basically, I just got another first author publication accepted in a scientific journal!!! YAAY!!!

Awww, Congrats Soror!!! :D:D

Go 'head Soror!

Congrats AKA Monet!

Well done! Although I had to read and re-read and re-read the title! :o :D

Congrats Doc!

Congrats!!!
 

This is wonderful news!

Congratulations and hat's off!!

Sorors, I am THRILLED to be able to tell you that my LS, Soror Tanisha Brito, has been named one of Ebony Magazine's "30 Young Leaders Under 30"! She's in the the new February '08 issue (with Eddie Murphy on the cover). Soror Tanisha was born into Phi Phi Omega Chapter and we're SO proud of her! :D

Also in that issue (I'm just now looking through it because I bought it for her lol) is an article about BGLOs making an impact on history...and it begins like this:

"On a cold morning in the winter of 1908, and 12 years before women of any color could vote in the United States, 16 women from Howard University came together to form the first Black Greek-letter women's organization, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., with the credo "to provide service to all mankind." :p:D

SO PROUD!!! SKEE-WEE Sorors!

^^That's great!! Hug Our Soror for us!!

This week's "Whose Wedding is it Anyway" featured a Soror as the Wedding Planner (Newport News, VA area).


The show should repeat this weekend. Check Style for more details.

Per Blacksocialite
 

Soror Alexia Hudson is on the cover in the black turtleneck and is featured inside!
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6535106.html


http://librarianbyday.files.wordpres...03/ljcover.jpg

Congrats to Pearl08
 

Congratulations and wonderful wishes on your wedding tomorrow. I'll see you when you get back!!!

Hope you had a great bday yesterday, too!

Boy, your new hubby better remember your bday and wedding day in the future.:D

http://alumni.usc.edu/baa/images/200...rive_Verna.jpg

Black Alumna of University of Southern California (and an AKA) gives $25,000,000 to alma mater.

Verna Dauterive came a long way from the segregated South to Southern California, and now she's giving back to the university that was the 'greatest influence' in her life.

Article about the gift
Biography of Mrs. Dauterive, including chapter affiliation

Power to End Stroke
 

Sorors, SF's and fellow GCers:

I was honored as my American Heart Association affiliate in this campaign entitled the Power to End Stroke...

The gala will be televised on the Word Network. The Affiliate honorees will be shown briefly. I am the one in the light green formal gown.

If you believe in ending stroke, please sign the pledge throughout the website.

There is a serious monetary aspect when a loved one suffers a stroke.

Congrats, Soror and thanks for bring attention to this campaign!

Congrats Soror AKA_Monet!!! That's great.
SC

Soror AKA_Monet,

what an honor:D congrats to you! strokes are a major health concern in our community. i agree, any attention brought to this condition helps.

Thank you sorors!!! Please join the movement and make the pledge! Teach yourself how to recognize symptoms of stroke it might save a loved one--maybe yourself.

Wonderful! We know there will be many more AKAlades coming your way.

Soror and my high school classmate
 

SU’s Leah Cullins to study at renown Genetics Institute

BATON ROUGE - Leah Cullins, Assistant Professor/Family Nurse Practitioner in the Southern University School of Nursing, was recently accepted into the Summer Genetics Institute (SGI) for training in molecular human genetics.

The SGI is a full-time eight-week research training program designed to provide a foundation in molecular human genetics for bio-behavioral research for nursing faculty, graduate students, and advanced practice nurses. The institute, which begins June 8, is sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health.

“The institute will enable me to explore topics in genetics that are important to increasing my nursing knowledge,” Cullins said. “This opportunity will provide me with the ability to identify new genetic information that will be used to treat and prevent disease.”

Participants who successfully complete the program will receive 12 hours of doctoral level graduate credit awarded through Georgetown University.

Her work at the institute will also benefit her own research on breast cancer in African-American women, she said, by providing her information on the influence of genetics in that area of study.

Cullins has published her research on cancer fatalism and breast-screening in African- American women, presented her findings at symposiums, and is currently building a program of research on breast cancer.

Cullins received her B.S. in Nursing in 2001, and her M.S. in Nursing in 2005 from Southern. She received her Family Nurse Practitioner Certification in 2006 from Southern. She is currently working on her Ph. D. in Nursing Science at Louisiana State University’s Health Science Center in New Orleans.

http://web.subr.edu/index.php?id=146&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=152&tx_ttnews[backPid]=69&cHash=511f9d41e3

/crashing.
I was checking the grades for Ohio State University Greek System and I noticed Alpha Kappa Alpha was again on the list. I heard the Theta Chapter was reorganizing this year. I am happy to mention that AKA listed 44 "new members" on the chart.

I would also like to mention the 44 ladies had the highest GPA among all of the PHC chapters. Congratulations ladies!

As a resident of Washington, DC, I just want to say THANK YOU to the ladies of AKA for beautifying our city with your gorgeous pink and green this past week! Congratulations on 100 years of sisterhood and leadership, and I wish you all the best for NEXT 100!

1st Lady Michelle Obama!! :D
Representing the First and the Finest.

Soror Tapped by Pres Elect Obama
 

President-elect Barack Obama introduces his economic advisers and takes reporters' questions. (Getty)

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik....1&disp=emb&zw
· See Soror Melody behind Obama

President-elect Barack Obama today announced the appointment of four key members of his new administration's economic policy team and issued a somber warning that the nation's economy "is likely to get worse before it gets better."

In a news conference in Chicago, Obama introduced New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy F. Geithner as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a choice that cheered the stock markets when it leaked late last week. He announced, as expected, that Lawrence H. Summers would become director of the National Economic Council in the Obama White House.
Obama also introduced two women as his picks to fill important policy jobs: Christina D. Romer to chair the Council of Economic
Advisers and Melody Barnes as director of the Domestic Policy Council.

I really admire Melody Barnes. Good stuff.

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority has deep roots in Cleveland
 

This article will appear in tomorrow's Plain Dealer...

"Despite its centennial, Alpha was overshadowed here this year by the slightly younger Delta Sigma Theta, which broke from Alpha in 1913. Delta made the news when a leading sister, the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, was succeeded in Congress by Marcia Fudge, once the sorority's national president.

But Cleveland has played a big role in Alpha too. Its Alpha Omega chapter, formed in 1913, was the sorority's first chapter for college graduates. Cleveland also has a second chapter for graduates, Lambda Phi Omega, and an undergraduate one, Omega.

Alpha Omega was the first chapter of any sorority to run a federal job training center -- the Cleveland Job Corps, which the chapter operated from 1965 to 1995. Now an Alpha Omega subsidiary runs Ivy Plaza, a senior citizen complex in Mount Pleasant named for a sorority symbol. "

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008...rority_ha.html

I thought this belonged here.
 

Congrats to soror Cassandra.

Liberian leader

Africa’s first democratically elected female head of state, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, comes to the U April 10 as the 2009 Distinguished Carlson Lecturer and to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.


http://www1.umn.edu/news/features/UR...NT_106543.html

I will be in the building tomorrow.

Soror Johnson-Sirleaf's presentation was wonderful. She has recently written a memoir This Child Will be Great.

Congrats to our Alpha Chapter Sorors!

Alpha Chapter Wins First Sprite Step Off Qualifying Challenge
Claims first prize in stepping and service
In a dazzling display of talent, members of Howard University's Alpha Chapter stepped to victory during the first of Sprite Step Off 's regional qualifying competition. The debut event, held in Washington, D.C., was one of the many highlights of the 24th annual Black Family Reunion Celebration.

In winning the first leg of the competition, the Alpha Chapter claimed a share of the $1.5 million prize pool, participated in service challenge-and secured first bragging rights!


http://www.aka1908.com/news/spritealpha/

AWESOME!!!!! I love it!!!! :D But I'm sooooooooooooooooooooo not surprised. My sorors always know how to put it down. Where ever we go, we always represent well. ;)

Apparently the Tau Chapter Sorors held it down as well. :)

Edwidge Danticat awarded "Genius Grant."

Member Awarded MacArthur Foundation's "Genius Grant"
Will use award to shine a light on native Haiti
Edwidge Danticat, a novelist and short story writer, who has used her talent to make the world aware of the struggles facing her native Haiti and its citizens, was awarded a "genius grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She joins 23 others, including artists, scientists and journalists, in being presented the award, which comes with a $500,000 grant over the next five years. The Foundation allows the recipients to do whatever they wish with the grant.

I need one of these awards to have my name on it. :)

I want to thank the sorors of the Delta Phi Omega Chapter of Minneapolis/St. Paul, who showed me the meaning of Twin Cities sisterhood when I was in residence there.

I also want sing the praises of my amazing 68. She is a soror who is accomplished, wise beyond her years, pretty in the way that only our sorors can be, and always willing to share her hard won Pearls of Wisdom with me. Love you ship.

The Sorors of Tau Chapter at Indiana University took first prize in the Sprite Step-Off Regional Finals. The Sorors STEPPED! They brought the house down too. :D

On to Atlanta....

Are there any youtube videos? Kappa Iota (University of Arkansas) is stepping in Houston this weekend, but I'm stuck in KY :(.

Haven't seen any, but I think that parts of the contest are going to be televised. I think I saw a commercial for MTV2.

Also, I think that the finals are going to be in Atlanta, if you were thinking about trying to get to a show.