good morning and welcome to. it is always a privilege to host you. and elizabeth is here as well. my theme for the day is the service to the community and our churches and our religions efforts have always been a concern about the community, it has never been just involved in the four walls. so we have been involved and concerned about our community since the start of our first sh

troy belton of advocators for good media who has been so big in the programs that i have brought to you for the last five months. he was up one morning. and he has been a friend and colleague and he saw the program and said that he would like to suggest some programs and he has done that for fifth time now and each guest has been great. and i anticipate the same day, with the guests from aka, and that is-- >> great to have you. >> hi, good to be here. >> great to have you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> tell us a little bit about your background and what made you involved in this organization that is so famous. >> well, the president of alpha kappa sorority. we have been serving the eaommu

she is the first vice president of our chapter and she is over all of the community service efforts. >> that is great. >> so we are both bay ea natives, which is great. and i joined when i was, oh, and under grad, so i was an undergraduate. i joined the chapter and i have been active ever since i joined the sorority if 2002 and since i have joined, i joined for a number of reasons, but one, i am very passionate about serving, not just our local communities, buspar nationally. i do--but internationally. i do travel to support efforts through africa and the anlly as native of richmond, california, it has alls been a passion of mine to--always been a passion of mine to serve the community,

the greater community. >> i was pastor of easter hill united methodist church r 13 years back in the 70s to the 90s. >> awesome. >> and what about you. >> oh, well, i was initiated in back in 2014, so i came in what we call graduate chapter. i am a native of the peninsula, and so the same, so we are just coming to the community and serving the community, not just your local community, but the bay area. so i live in the east bay, being from the peninsula and got involved. >> so you went to high school? san mateo? >> yes, and i went to oakland. i was born in oak hand, raised in richmond and my patientings worked in d--my parents worked in oakland and san francisco. >> and there was a leadership

program that focused sh ill tos higher education and outside groups. currently i am a recruiter and i have recruited for several different organizations here in the bay area. and currently, i am recruiting for a professional sports team in oakland. >> oakland as. >> maybe, i don't know. >> okay. okay. and you? >> well, i have a masters in counseling physcology and i am currently a community college counselor. so i work with students, helping them to transfer to four year colleges and universities, or you know, e sc >>is eat.is a wonderful beginni and we will talk more after we come back. >> thank

welcome back. we have been speaking to two women about their beginnings and their involvement in the community. a psychiatrist once said that we have three basic needs, one is for safety, one is for

satisfaction, and the other is for connection. and this is what i think organizations, that they represent, connection and community involvement. so tell us a little bit about the akas. >> sure. so our sorority was founded at howard university in 1908. so we have been services the entire world for 110 years. >> okay. >> and we have, what we call the 20 pearls, which means that we have 16 founders and we have four women who incorporated our organization. and since our inception we have been, oh, doing several things globally and you are going edit this part, right? >> oh, no no. go ahead--oh no, no.

go ahead. >> we have been servicing our communities to encolonel people to vote--encourage people to volt and we also kate tore women--also waiter to women and children who are in need--we also cater to women and children who are in need. >> i mentioned earlier that you met in houston recently with 30,000 or so. >> yes so, currently, apoll eyes for sounding weird earlier, we have about 300,000 members in our sorority as a whole. >> i believe it is more than that. and each four years we have a different program, or area of focus. so we met in houston for our international convention. and we, at that point, our any internationaidenwas installed. and she shared the new program that we will carry out in our

local communities. and she just called it showing excellence. so it has a focus on the arts, on education enrichment, our global impact, as well as health, because those are basically areas of focus for our organization and areas that impact, that have, oh, that have areas of need within the african american community specifically. >> we have a new members in our church that are active, and you cannot know everyone, because there are many chappers. >> yes there are. so we are actually the second chapter founded in a forwestern region. so our group is divided by regions and we are in california, we are considered being a part of the far western region. and we are one of a number of chapters, but we are the second chapter chartered here and we were the first chapter

chartered in northern californias. ally have a large gala that we are planning for next year. so i will be how send you the invitation for that. >> and stella san juan is an active member, she has been active for 60 plus years. so you are working with community service. >> right, so the program, it is excellence through sustainability. so we have, like we said earlier, we roll out a different program every four years so this program is focusing on like, we are going to do a program where we do souls for soles. so we will donate sues to children in haiti. and we will also come together- -shoes to children in high tee. and we will--haiti. and we will collect grasses.

so we want to the community the best way that we can and to be, you know, to help those who we know that are in need, and just kind of make sure that we are visibility and that we are able- -visible and that we are able to help our communities. >> to back up a little bit, what inspired you to get invalved? >> well, the-- involved. >> well, that is a great question. we were just talking about that, as the president and vice president of a chapter of 150 professional women it can get a little busy. and we were just in our off season, so during the summer months, those are crucially our lighter months and we were just laughing about how things are starting to crank up a bit now. but from my perspective, the passion that i have ornization, i believe in the organization's mission. it is a beautiful organization

with amazingly talented women who contributed greatly to the community and i am happy to be, oh a contributor from that standpoint. >> yes. yes. significant. thank you for that. >> and i would say for myself, just the notion of the sister hood. you know, i have 300,000 sisters. you know, i can go to a different city and i can look up a sister and also myself being an only child, the bond that i have with the women is great. i also have another 150 women here that i can go to and i may have a question about, you know, the program, my program, or i need help with that. i have 150 women i can go to along with the 200,000 women, also. >> i recently heard quincy jones say that musicians have to have passion, and they have to be fearless. and i hear one word you

mentioned, passion. >> yes. >> and so you seem to have that is critical. >> yes. >> yes. >> yeah. >> and i know for me it was instilled in me since undergrad. i was fortunate enough to have, well, great people assist with my initiation. and they didn't have a break in membership, and they encouraged myself and my sisters to continue on that path as well. ask, i actually--so i actually have six line sisters from undergrads and most of us have- -undergrad and most of us have stayed active. and a younger cyster is active- -sister is active as well. >> i think this has been good. and i am sure that peopwo you are doing. >> thank you. >> we will come back. >> thanks. >> okay.

>> we will be back soon. please join us here on mosaic.

back to mosaic. it has been great to host mosaic again with two women and their involvement. tell us more about this. >> okay, so again, as i mentioned, we have a chapter that is as 50 members and in the past few years we have done, this and, this, this of community--thousands and thousands of community service. we provide scholarships, we mentor, and we just wrapped up

our mentoring program which is called send. and it was an international program that recently ended. and we had about 12 students that came out to participate in several efforts. do you want to talk about some of those activities? >> yes, with our send program, so like what she said, we mentor high school students and so that program, we at high school state of the unions, boys and girl--students, boys and girls: and we did programs with them and we had like, i am sorry, we had a, we focused on arts, we when to the museum. we had an etiquette program, do the black expo. estaurants, and we to be student there is to get information about hbcus. lsnt to visit colleges,

the local colleges in the area and just providing them with information about financial accounting, literacy, hosted a literacy program on getting ready for college, like when you go to college, what is expected, you know, talking to them about financial aid, picking a major, just becoming responsible, the process of being a students and being responsible. >> and that seems very helpful. >> yes. >> what i was thinking though, is how do you become a member? what is the qualifications. >> well, it is secret. [ laughter ] >> like a lot of things. >> yes, so it depends on when you decide to join. so if you joined at an undergraduate level, you can join a chapter at your local campus, which is what i did. more anyou do younyou rtt who

so also, we have membership information on the graduate level and if you are in the bay area, we have investigation on our website--we have information on our website. and there is a membership section that you can find out the requirement toss join and what the steps might be- -requirements to join and what the steps might be. but member ship is not an and going thing. it is--an ongoing thing. it is when we as a chapter decide when we would like to expand our chapter. >> okay. do you want to add to that? >> yes, going to our website and looking at the information that is required. but also when you think about member ship for an organization like ours, or any other greek letter organization, this is a life membership. so you really want to think if you want to commit to them for life. >> i have been a part of a few organizations like that and you

invite you. so that is one of the reasons i had the question. >> yes, so we have a very similar model. so it is by invitation only. and but in terms of when that happens, again, it is as a chapter we decide to expand. >> i see. i see. there is limit to that then? >> um, maybe. >> yes. do you have to have a college degree? >> so as i mentioned, you do need to have a bachelor's degree. if you join in undergrad, obviously, you are a student so you would be joining as a student at that local chapter. >> now you mentioned something might be coming up in october? >> yes. yes. so we have several activities

coming up. and one is our celebrity bartender even ner wi anafrican amerowned restaurant or don't the arck down cification am provide informatn later y-a but you can yomentioned a- -october. >> and you mentioned a website earlier? >> yes, all of the events are posted on our website. >> okay. >> and you can also follow us on our instagram account and facebook. >> okay. >> yes. >> you have not been deleted from that? >> no, we have not. >> that is good. that is good. well, i am inspired. >> and people would love to be a part of this and so you want to inspire you and challenge you to continue to do so thank

>> is there anything else that you would like to say the audience? >> thank you for being with us. please join us in our last segment.

we have been talking ab the service--about the service to our community here and the akas have done a lot of service over the years, going back to 1929. >> 1908. >> 1908, actually. and 1929, i think, is the local chapter. >> yes. >> so many, many years of service. would you like to say a few more things about what you do. >> yes, i just wanted to say that we are very fortunate to be a part of this great organization. our founders had this amazing vision and our chapter members as well--our charter members as well. again, we are part of the second chapter near northern california. and we actually are the home of

a, or, an international president which is not common for chapters in the far western region. and we also have all of that to say, as a chapter, we have a long history and we have always remained relevant and responsive to the changing needs and patterns in our local community, as well as internationally. and we are excited to carry out this new program that was rolled out at our international conference in houston. and i am just excited to get even further and deeper into the community. >> when you talk about president and vice president, do you have to run for the office? >> yes, these are elected positions. and we are elected to serve. this is miners year, so my term is--my first year, so my term is for go years. so i will--for two years. so i will wrap up my team next year. >> and you also, were elected as vice president. >> right, well, actually, i was

appointed. >> yes. >> she was elected president and so i am finishing out her term this year. so i will most hiwill running for--most likely running for my position this year. so you know, hopefully things will work out. like again, we are elected. >> oh, okay. do you see any competition out there? >> oh, of course. there is always competition, but it is good sisterly competition. >> we have great members in our chapter. everyone is very talented and eager to lead and take the charge on things. >> yes. well, i think you probably have a better reputation that some fraternities that we know of, but that is, you know,-- >> we all do great things. we are a part of the divine nine. >> if you can pass the introductions and the hazing, but you guys do not do that. >> of course not. and they do not do it, either. but the thing is, we are part of the divine nine, which is the umbrella organization for

the national counsel, or what we call members of the national counsel and all divine nine organizations, they are all going amazing things both locally and globally and we are fortunate to you know, be able to partner with them. >> thank you for coming this morning. >> thank you. thank you for having us. >> i know it was quite an effort to get here. so we appreciate you being here. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and in closing, i would like to say that in our service to our community, when we started our ministry, we started in east oakland. hugh was the pastor there of hillside. i was president of the organization, vice president, i should say of the east oakland clergy. he was active, a part of that. we always believed our church should be involved in the community. and i am saying this now

because hugh has been ill for about a year, he fell down at his home and he was injured badly. and so we want to send out our prayers and thoughts to him, to his family, as they surround him, as i was with him in the hospital this last week. so we are with them an elizabeth and i want to make sure that he hears our prayers and thoughts for his family. gail and the family. god bless him.

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