Alpha Kappa Alpha Founders’ Day Was Commemorated At The White House With Early Celebration By Kamala Harris

By Dantee Ramos

Vice President Kamala Harris commemorated Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.‘s Founders’ Day on Jan. 8 with her Divine Nine sisters. Harris hosted the sorority for a day of sisterhood on the Navy Steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus. Alpha Kappa Alpha’s Founders’ Day is Jan. 15. The organization was founded at Howard University in 1980. Harris crossed Alpha Kappa Alpha in Spring 1986 through Howard University’s Alpha Chapter.

According to Watch The Yard, the event marked the vice president’s fourth year hosting an early Founders’ Day celebration with her sorority sisters.

“I’m so proud of the work that the members of our sorority and our sorors have done in connection with this Administration that has had an impact on the entire country and the world,” Harris said, the outlet reported. “And we will continue to do this work, head up, shoulders back, with grace, and with purpose, and with faith, and with the knowledge that we are all in this together, doing extraordinary work.”

A White House statement to Watch The Yard mentioned how Harris “has consistently focused on energizing, engaging, lifting up, and partnering with the National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations (Divine Nine), their members, and leadership throughout the country.”

In August, during Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. formed a political action committee, which allowed the sorority to raise money to support political candidates.