List of Alpha Kappa Alpha members

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by nine women who were known as The Original Group of 1908, and seven sophomores, honor students who are also considered founders and are known as The Sophomores of 1910.

Membership is extended to female college undergraduate and graduate students.

The sorority also bestows honorary membership as its highest honor.

[3] Listed below are notable Alpha Kappa Alpha women such as the founders and international presidents, and members who are involved in the fields of arts and entertainment, business, civil rights, education, health, law, politics, science, literature and sports.

Teresa Snorton First woman to be elected bishop in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Members of Congress, all of whom are Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters, among them then-Senator Kamala Harris , the first female Vice President of the United States
Anna Julia Cooper
Edwidge Danticat
Bernice King
Donda West
Frederica S. Wilson
Phylicia Rashad
Patricia E. Bath
Dorothy Boulding Ferebee
Vicki Miles-LaGrange
Peggy Quince
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
Eva L. Clayton
Katie Hall
Kamala Harris
Sheila Jackson-Lee
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Hazel O'Leary
Diane Watson
Althea Gibson
Jane Addams
Maya Angelou
Gayleatha Brown
Cardiss Collins
Ella Fitzgerald
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Antoinette Garnes
Vonetta Flowers
Alicia Keys
Coretta Scott King
Carmen de Lavallade-Holder
Wangari Maathai
Nichelle Nichols
Rosa Parks
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jada Pinkett Smith
C. Vivian Stringer
Alice Walker