2025 LEADERSHIP SEMINAR REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

Registration for our 2025 Leadership Seminar: "Pathways to Soar: Unlocking Impactful Leadership” is officially open. We will convene July 10-13, 2025, in Anaheim, California, for a fulfilling and dynamic seminar designed to meet your goals and allow you to enhance your personal, professional, and sorority leadership.

A few registration reminders:

• • • For questions about your registration, please click on the Contact Us button in the top navigation bar of the registration site.

    • We strongly encourage you to download the Registration Book and review all information before registering.

    • Sorors must select all activities you plan to attend during the registration process including AKA® in the Park: A Disneyland Resort® Twilight Experience, workshops, certifications, networking sessions, gatherings/mixer, and all other activities.

    • Housing options are only available once your registration is complete. Return to the SUMMARY page, scroll down, and then click on Request Housing to access housing options. If the hotel that you selected does not have the dates available, please select another hotel or enter alternative dates.

    • Make sure your membership profile is accurate. You may be asked to verify your email address. A verification code will be sent to the email address in your profile. If you do not receive the code, check your spam folder. Also, ensure this email address, support@leadership.email, is marked as a safe sender in your contacts.

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.

chapter history reports due on May 1, 2025

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. 

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

1. 2020 Founders’ Day Information

   • Theme for that year

   • Speaker for that year

   • Date it was held

   • Identify all Chapters that participated

2. Chapters that celebrated 25, 50 or 100 anniversaries in 2020. Indicate what plans were, whether they were carried out and how.

3. 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.

4. Names of Diamond, Pearl and Golden Sorors who reached the level between 2020 and 2025. A brief bio sketch may be included.

5. Names of IBTW from 2020 to 2025. Again, a very brief bio may be included.

6. 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? 

7. 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.  

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.

Photo 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

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

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.