Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®
The first sorority for African-American women, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® (AKA), was founded in 1908 on the campus of Howard University. Over the years, membership has prospered from the original 20 founders to more than 320,000. Service, scholarship, and sisterhood are the pillars that AKA was built upon. They continue to be the fundamental structures that inspire its members to give of themselves to help others to thrive.
Diversity is also a strong asset of the organization. The sorority is composed of more than 320,000 initiated members in graduate and undergraduate chapters located in 12 countries, including the United States, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Dubai, Germany, Japan, Liberia, Nigeria, South Korea, South Africa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The International President & CEO is Danette Anthony Reed of Dallas, Texas.
Although members hail from a wide variety of races, ethnicities, cultures, and backgrounds, they proudly and passionately relish in the bond of the AKA Sisterhood.
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Mid-Atlantic Region
To effectively and efficiently govern the more than 900 chapters, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is divided into ten regions, according to geographical location and density of population. Chapters were originally organized into regions in 1924 and charged regional directors as the lead officer. Prior to 1953, the states that now make up the Mid-Atlantic Region (NC and VA) were part of the South Atlantic Region.
Due to regional realignment, the Mid-Atlantic Region was born at the 1953 Boule. Dr. Rose Butler Browne, the first Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, led the region with determination and commitment to serving all mankind. Since 1953, there have been nineteen regional directors and 130 chapters chartered (82 graduate chapters and 48 undergraduate chapters).
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Nu Chi Omega Chapter
Nu Chi Omega Chapter was chartered on May 23, 1981 in Oxford, North Carolina at the former Holiday Inn Hotel. Evelyn Reid Syphax, the 16th Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, conducted the ceremony. The group consisted of twenty members from the surrounding counties of Vance, Granville, Franklin and Warren.
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