As an interested woman, Alpha Kappa Alpha has always been there... But it was my freshwoman year in college that was the defining moment... The first person to befriend me in college was a senior who became a member of AKA that same year. It was her genuine nature that spoke volumes about the organization I would later aspire to join.
Though my desire was not serious then, I was not truly serious until several years after undergrad, it was this senior and the mentorship that developed - that I recall as that defining moment...