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It's Earth Month: Let's Plant, Tend, Reduce, Shred, and Recycle

Soror Danette Anthony Reed

Supreme Basileus

It's earth month: Let's plant, tend, reduce, shred, and recycle

Dear Sorors,

It’s April and a perfect time to reflect on our relationship with our planet! Last year, we planted more than 40,000 trees; shredded more than one million PLUS pounds of paper, and recycled than 100,000 electronics to Enhance Our EnvironmentTM, while creating a movement to raise awareness about environmental issues.

Let’s take time this month to celebrate the progress made to protect our environment and also double down on action to address environmental challenges that remain.

Here’s three things you can do this month:

Ignite your Sister Squads to create or expand community and/or home gardens to reduce negative environmental impact and promote sustainable agriculture.

Unplug electronics such as phone chargers, printers, computers, and rarely used TVs when they’re not in use.

Plan your next chapter event as a sustainable one. Consider how to layer sustainability while organizing your spring and summer events—for example, eliminate disposables, or choose a venue that has walkable space.

On Earth Day, April 22, join over one billion people around the globe working to protect the planet. Use social media to post tree planting events, recycling activities, workshops, composting events, etc.

Use these hashtags: #AKA1908 #SoaringwithAKA #EnhanceOurEnvironment #AKAandEarthDay.

Sorors, let’s continue to soar in preserving planet Earth!

Sisterly,

Soror Danette Anthony Reed
Supreme Basileus

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Congratulations to the Mid-Western Region’s

2025 Leadership Fellows

Soror Ai'shah Aycth

Soror Ai’shah Aycth is a Fall 2024 initiate of the Kappa Psi Chapter at the University of Oklahoma.

Soror Ai’shah is majoring in Business Entrepreneurship and Venture Management with a minor in African and African American Studies.

Soror Senteria Tiffany McCain

Soror Senteria Tiffany McCain is a Spring 2023 initiate of the Kappa Psi Chapter at the University of Oklahoma.

Soror Tiffany is pursuing a double major in Political Science & African American Studies with a Pre-Law track.

Soror Ariana Ross

Soror Ariana Ross is a Spring 2024 initiate of the Pi Xi Chapter at the University of Central Missouri.

Soror Ariana is pursuing a degree in Sports Management.

mid-western Region events

AKAs Excel:

Evaluations Chat

Is your chapter up for evaluation? Do you have questions about chapter operations?

Join Soror Angela Williams, Mid-Western Region Representative to the International Standards Committee

for an informative call.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. (CST)
Register here to attend:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tbOLoz8BScOkuQsDmyRCiA

register now for aka day at the capitol

This year’s theme is “The Power of the Ivy: Advancing Justice and Equity Through Advocacy”. Now more than ever, our presence is required to raise our voices. The communities we serve expect us to show up, stand in the gap, and advocate for issues vital to them. Our Ancestors resisted oppression, and so shall we. Let's show up as Alpha Kappa Alpha Women have for the past 117 years.

Rescheduled - Missouri Registration: https://form.jotform.com/mwrtechteamaka/missouri-aka-day-at-the-capitol

The deadline to register is Sunday, April 20, 2025.

Oklahoma Registration: https://form.jotform.com/mwrtechteamaka/oklahoma-aka-day-at-the-capitol

The deadline to register is Friday, April 18, 2025.

Note for "Missouri AKA Day at the Capitol" Previously Registered Attendees:

Your registration will automatically carry over to the new date—no further action is needed. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Pink Print Connection: Sisters in Career Success is Now Live!

Are you currently exploring new career opportunities or considering a career change? Whether you're actively job hunting or just starting to explore your options, the Pink Print Connection: Sisters in Career Success LinkedIn group is the perfect place to connect! Join us to search for job openings, share your own opportunities, and access a wealth of career search resources. Let’s work together to make your next career move a success!

Request to join here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14625053/

spring and summer

2025 graduation survey

Spring is a time reminiscent of new growth and inspiration. It is also a time to celebrate. Graduation represents the culmination of a student’s hard work. It is a moment of celebration, joy, and pride as graduates embark on their next adventure. If you are graduating with your undergraduate or graduate degree in Spring or Summer 2025, we would like to recognize you.

Please complete the brief survey below to be recognized in our May newsletters. All entries must be received by Saturday May 3, 2025.

Click here to submit your information: https://forms.gle/5bBtqp74SVf3ynAdA

Gayle P. Miles Scott

Former Supreme Tamiouchos

Ivy Beyond the Wall

let's do it again!

The theme of the 95th Mid-Western Regional Conference was “The Pink Print Relays: On Track to Soar”. During the First Plenary Session, Madam Regional Director announced that all Former Mid-Western Regional Directors that have an endowment have been fully endowed. However, we have one endowment that has not been met: Soror Gayle P. Miles Scott, Former Supreme Tamiouchos.

Sorors, we have received the charge, and it is time to carry the baton. $15,209.29 is needed to endow the Gayle P. Miles Scott Endowment. If at least 800 sorors can commit to giving $19.08, we can endow Soror Gayle’s fund.

Click here to donate $19.08: https://donate.akaeaf.org/pages/endowment-donation-form-a-d?fid=X9e990x6QEk%3d&fdesc=IU7xV153nYI%3d

Congratulations to EAF’s Go for the Green Winners!

MID-WESTERN REGION HISTORY UPDATE

Greetings Sorors:

The past few years we have lived “history in the making”. It is our goal to update our history by documenting the Mid-Western Region’s response to this time of challenge. This period of time could have resulted in our not providing any service at all, but Mid-Western stepped up and found a way to serve. In fact, the Region not only stayed engaged, we also once again led the way in several areas for Alpha Kappa Alpha to continue to move forward in service and sisterhood. The story deserves and needs to be documented and told. Our Regional Director, Soror Anika Wilson Starling, has authorized an update to our Region’s History.

The history will also update some events and members that may not have been included in previous editions of the history book. It is an honor and a privilege for me to be asked to do so. Assisting me in this project is Golden Soror Martha Carpenter, researcher extraordinaire. We are in the process of collecting data that captures how the Mid-Western Region responded to and rose above the storm created by the pandemic. Obviously, your help is both needed and desired in order to effectively do the job. Please help by supplying information from your chapter covering the years 2020 to the present. Graduate Advisors, you may need to help the undergraduates since those who were in the undergraduate chapters in 2020 are no longer there.

Each chapter should submit everything by May 1, 2025. Click here to Access the Form

Individual Sorors may also make submissions at the following link: Click here to Access the Form

Information needed from all chapters (expand for more details)

Here is a list of the information needed from all chapters:

2020 Founders’ Day Information
- Theme for that year
- Speaker for that year
- Date it was held
- Identify all Chapters that participated
Chapters that celebrated 25, 50 or 100 anniversaries in 2020. Indicate what plans were, whether they were carried out and how.
Programs carried out during in 2020 during the “lockdown”. Include the method of delivery and impact. Indicate how this differed from before the shut-down.
Names of Diamond, Pearl and Golden Sorors who reached the level between 2020 and 2025. A brief bio sketch may be included.
Names of IBTW from 2020 to 2025. Again, a very brief bio may be included.
Identify how the chapter reached out in sisterhood during 2020. How was it different from before the lockdown and finally if it continued, returned to pre-pandemic or how it was different. What programs actions carried over?
Names of Cluster Coordinators from your chapter from 2009 forward to 2025. (These were not fully recognized in previous history editions, and we want to correct that omission.)

There is also a sheet attached that may be completed by individual sorors with their personal reflections of the time during the pandemic and immediately after. Please submit everything by May 1, 2025.

Click here to Access the Form

This is a firm deadline. The History Update will be released at the 96th Mid-Western Regional Conference. This means that the writing and revisions must be completed by November 2025 so that the manuscript can be submitted to the printer for it to be ready for release. Also please know that depending on how much data we receive, every picture may not get published. Also know that we will edit for clarity and to keep the flow of the manuscript.

Contributions may be emailed to me at dagines6010@gmail.com (preferred) or if bulky sent by regular mail to:

Soror Delorise Gines

19th Mid-Western Regional Director

8605 Ward Parkway

Kansas City, MO 64114-2602

Thanks for your participation,

Soror Delorise A. Gines

19th Mid-Western Regional Director

History Buff and new Pearl Soror

Mid-Western Region Monthly Sisterly Spotlight

Do you want to shine a light on a soror who may not always be publicly recognized but exemplifies kindness, compassion, care, and a nurturing spirit in all they do? If so, submit your nomination by completing the Sisterly Spotlight Form. Please ensure the form is fully completed before submission. The committee will carefully review all nominations for accuracy. Eligible names will be entered into a monthly lottery, and one soror will be selected each month. General members' names are welcomed, as well. The selected soror and her sisterly acts will be submitted to Madam Regional Director for approval before being celebrated on social media. While a soror may be nominated multiple times, she can win only once per year. Photos are highly encouraged but not required.

Key Deadline: All nominations must be submitted by the 15th of each month.

our ivies

soror charlotte mitchell

Soror Charlotte Mitchell became an Ivy Beyond the Wall on March 31, 2025. She was initiated into the Alpha Zeta Chapter in 1985.

If you would like to be recognized for your special day, please complete this brief survey.

Birthday Link

MID-WESTERN REGION style

REGION SCARVES

Sorors, signature scarves representing the Mid-Western Region are available for purchase. The scarves can be purchased as a set for $65.00 or separately for $35.00.

Purchase here

SOCIAL MEDIA

Sorors, make sure to stop by and visit our Facebook page and Instagram to keep up with what's going on in the Mid-Western Region!

YAPP!

Please join us on the Mid-Western Region’s official app, YAPP to get the latest news on the region, chapters, and events in your area. See you on the app!

reminders

IBTW Submissions

To ensure we capture all sorors that have now become an Ivy Beyond the Wall, a submission link has been created for ease of reporting. Ivy Beyond the Wall submissions should be provided by the Chapter Basilei as soon as the chapter is notified. Forms will be accepted for all sorors who have become an Ivy Beyond the Wall from the end of the 2024 Mid-Western Regional Conference through the end of the year. Please use the following link.

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