Prominant Sorors Of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Mae Jemison, M.D. Astronaut and businesswoman
Dr. Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990
Marjorie Judith Vincent, Miss America 1991
Suzette Charles, Miss America 1984
Hazel O'Leary, US Secretary of Energy
Dr. Marilyn Hughes-Gaston, Assistant Surgeon General
Lt. Col. Anita McMiller, Deputy Legislative Assistant to Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sharon Pratt Kelly, The first woman to serve as mayor of Washington, D. C.
Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke, Former Congresswoman from California and first woman to chair the Democratic National Convention
Diane Watson The first Black woman to preside over the California State Senate
Angie Brookes, The first woman President of the United Nations
Faye Wattleton, former President of Planned Parenthood
Toni Morrison, author and Nobel laureate
Maya Angelou, poet
Rosa Parks, mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Zina Garrison, tennis star
Phylicia Rashad, actress
Yvette Lee, Producer of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and A Different World, and creator and executive producer of Living Single
Star Jones, talk show host for "The View"
Ntozake Shange, writer
Shirlee Tailor Haizlip, author of The Sweeter the Juice
Jada Pinkett Smith, actress
Bebe Moore Campbell, author of Brothers and Sisters and Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Jomarie Payton Noble, Humanitarian and actress; star of Family Matters
Leah Tutu, Wife of South African activist Bishop Desmond Tutu
Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant, Essence columnist
Coretta Scott King, activist
C. Delores Tucker, National Chairman of the National Political Congress of Black Women
Jewell Jackson McCabe, President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker, PhD., President of the United States Committee for UNICEF
Bettiann Gueno Gardner, Co-Chiarman of Soft Sheen Products, Inc.
Lynn Whitfield, actress
Sonia Sanchez, author and poet
Ella Fitzgerald, internationally famous jazz singer
Janice Huff, NBC Meteorologist and St. Louis Emmy Award Winner
Marva Collins, Founder of her own private school on Chicago's west side
These are only a few of the many great women who share our beautiful sisterhood.
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