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Celebrating Women’s History Month:
Celebrating Women’s History Month:
Honoring the Achievements of Women Everywhere
Honoring the Achievements of Women Everywhere
March is here, and with it comes the chance to celebrate the incredible achievements of women throughout history. Women’s History Month gives us the opportunity to reflect on the remarkable contributions of women from all walks of life—past and present—whose strength, creativity, and resilience have shaped our world.
This month, we honor not just the well-known figures, but also the everyday women whose courage and dedication continue to inspire and create change. Whether it’s through breaking barriers in science, leading social movements, or changing the cultural landscape, women’s contributions are woven into the fabric of our global history.
As we celebrate the impact women have made and continue to make, let’s uplift their stories, support their aspirations, and ensure that the future is one where every woman can thrive.
mid-western Region events
mid-western Region events
register now for aka day at the capitol
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.
Colorado Registration: https://form.jotform.com/mwrtechteamaka/colorado-aka-day-at-the-capitol
The deadline to register is Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
Oklahoma Registration: https://form.jotform.com/mwrtechteamaka/oklahoma-aka-day-at-the-capitol
The deadline to register is Friday, April 18, 2025.
mid-western Region news
mid-western Region news
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
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, Pear,l 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
Cruise Updates
Cruise Updates
Sorors, the Pink Sail Cruise is just around the corner, and we have some updates to share. Please see below.
Soror Lai Andrea "Dee" Granger
Mid-Western Region Monthly Sisterly Spotlight
Mid-Western Region Monthly Sisterly Spotlight
This month’s Sisterly Spotlight is shining on Soror Lai Andrea “Dee” Granger of the Alpha Epsilon Omega Chapter! Soror Debra Horsechief shared these sentiments about Soror Dee:
“Lai Andrea Granger models exceptional sisterly behavior by always being present and actively participates in all activities with a smile. Lai Andrea beams with God’s love and joy and spreads happiness throughout the Mid-Western Region. She demonstrates a welcoming and inviting spirit to all. She ensures that everyone has a feeling of acceptance, involvement, and belonging. She listens attentively with no judgment. Dee always speaks positively about others. She is a very genuine, kind, faithful, sweet, and loving person. Dee is the definition of sisterly relations.”
Congratulations, Soror Lai Andrea!
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.
sisterly relations survey
sisterly relations survey
Sisterhood is...
Support when the world turns cold. Upliftment when your crown slips, gently placed back without judgment. Joy in shared triumphs, both big and small. Silence understood, even when no words are spoken. Truth told in love, even when it's hard. Legacy, passed down like pearls—one generation to the next.
It is standing in the gap, Linking arms across distance and difference, celebrating each other and being rooted in purpose, whether you met yesterday or 50 years ago.
In a world that often seeks to divide, Sisterhood unites.
The Mid-Western Region Sisterly Relations Committee
asks that you complete a brief survey to better serve you and your needs,
to keep our bonds blooming, and our sisterhood strong.
MID-WESTERN REGION kudos
MID-WESTERN REGION kudos
If you would like to be recognized for your special day, please complete this brief survey.
MID-WESTERN REGION style
MID-WESTERN REGION style
SOCIAL MEDIA
SOCIAL MEDIA
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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!
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
reminders
IBTW Submissions
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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