When did you know?

[Rude awAKAning]

for me, it was my many years in Girl Scouts and the few years I spent in Jack & Jill. All the moms of my J&J girlfriends were women of Alpha Kappa Alpha, and of my troop leaders, most of them were either college students or young women, but all but one were AKA's. All the women I was exposed to doing great things for me and the community were around me were AKA's, and I wanted to emulate them in every fashion. I guess, it may have helped a little, that my mom, grandmother AND great grandmother are all women of AKA. Every woman in my life represented the epitome of greatness, and just about every woman in my life was a woman of Alpha Kappa Alpha as well.

[titan257]

I would have to say the day I found out that my my role model was an AKA. My cousin who is ten years older than me who I always looked up to because she had so many qualities that I longed to mimic, crossed in 2001 way before I"d even thought about college. I told her I was doing some research and she didn't tell me until after I decided which way I wanted to go, so as to not taint my decision. Her journey inspired me, although I am still striving today to accomplish my goal, she still encourages me to keep my head up.