Sista Strut 2023 - Your attendance is requested for Sista Strut 2023. This service project is in support of the Uplift our Local Community initiative under SOAR.

• Saturday, March 18 8-12 noon
• Location: City Park Festival Grounds
• RPO Meeting Location: Under the Pavillion (map to be provided day before)
• Attire: AKA Athletic Wear, colorful wigs or other headpieces are encouraged
• Sign up: https://raceroster.com/events/2023/71720/sista-strut-new-orleans 
• Select Team "Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc."
  

We are supporting this event in partnership with our local AKA chapters of Alpha Beta Omega and Omicron Lambda Omega.  We will host a table on the Festival Grounds, as well as conduct a check presentation on stage to the American Cancer Society. For any additional questions or information, please contact the Sista Strut Chair - Soror Zeta Hayes-Gabriel at zetahgabriel@gmail.com.  Any sorors that are breast cancer survivors, please email rpoprograms@gmail.com by Wednesday, March 1. 

Program Committee Signup - Sorors, thank you to everyone that has signed up for a program committee and many thanks to those that have stepped up to serve as Chair or Co-chair.  I'm in the process of finalizing the lists, so please review the link below and update the committees in which you wish to serve by Wednesday, March 1.  For committee Chairs and Co-chairs, we will meet Wednesday, February 22 at 6:30 pm.  You will receive a meeting notice shortly. 

 RPO Program Committees 2023

Youth Leadership Institute - We have begun planning for the Youth Leadership Institute with a soft-launch in the Spring and full launch in the Fall of 2023.  The focus will be on "Loving Yourself" and teach youth key principles on the following: 1. Respect for our ancestors/elders, 2. Expansion of their cultural experiences, 3. Entrepreneurship and Ownership.  Soror Benita Scott serves as the Chair.  The members of this committee are under the Empower our Families initiative. If you still would like to sign-up, please feel free to contact her directly at prov31nita8@yahoo.com. 

Pearl Essence - We have begun planning for the Pearl Essence event tentatively scheduled for August/September 2023.  This event will be hosted in partnership with the Westbank Omega Psi Phi chapter, and the fundraising efforts will support the donation of backpacks for local schools under the CHIPP program. Soror Ronique Sylva-Beverly serves as the Chair.  She will utilize the members of the fundraising committee as her planning committee.  If you still would like to sign-up, please feel free to contact her directly at rsbeverly2002@hotmail.com. 

February Focus: Build our Economic Wealth Initiative  - For the month of February, we are focused on how to keep the dollar within our community longer.  For Black communities, the dollar stays within our community only 6 hours! In comparison, the dollar stays 28 days in the Asian community, 19 days in the Jewish community, and 17 days in the White community.  Let's be intentional with our dollar...

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is launching our most progressive and revolutionary economic initiatives this century. This administration has created institutional-level solutions to combat institutional-level challenges.  We will further encourage and equip our members to place key strategies into action to build personal, organizational, and community economic wealth.