<P> Consisting of college - educated women of many diverse backgrounds from around the world, including African, Caucasian, Asian, Native American, Hispanic and Indian descent, the sorority serves through a membership of more than 283,000 women in 992 chapters in the United States and several other countries . Women may join through undergraduate chapters at a college or university or they may also join through a graduate chapter after acquiring an undergraduate or advanced college degree . </P> <P> After the organization's establishment, Alpha Kappa Alpha has helped to improve social and economic conditions through community service programs . Members have improved education through independent initiatives, contributed to community - building by creating programs and associations, such as the Mississippi Health Clinic, and influenced federal legislation by Congressional lobbying through the National Non-Partisan Lobby on Civil and Democratic Rights . The sorority works with communities through service initiatives and progressive programs relating to education, family, health, and business . </P> <P> Alpha Kappa Alpha is part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC). The current International President is Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson, and the sorority's document and pictorial archives are located at Moorland - Spingarn Research Center . </P> <P> In spring 1907, Ethel Hedgeman led efforts to create a sisterhood at Howard University . Howard faculty member Ethal Robinson encouraged Hedgeman by relating her own observances of sorority life at the Women's College at Brown University, even though she was not a member of any sorority while a student at Brown . Hedgeman was also inspired by her mentors at Howard . To implement her idea, Hedgeman began recruiting interested classmates during the summer of 1907 . </P>

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