No well hello good afternoon and thank you so much for joining our race today podcast where we will be talking about black Sisterhood and in particular having a conversation with some incredible women from our four black female sororities race today is a one-hour podcast which focuses on racism in the
United States as well as offers an activist platform to eradicate racism in the United States I’m Dr Alicia Williams and I’m one of our producers of race today we also have Shel hi my name is shelle isik I am also a co-producer and I’m actually looking forward to this conversation today thank
You Charelle and Lisa hi I’m also a producer and I’m looking forward to hearing about uh this conversation thank you Lisa well with that we’re going to go ahead and begin with our introductions and we’ll first start with Robin Hilton our AKA on the panel Robin good afternoon everyone my name is
Robin Hilton and as Alicia has said I’m a member of Alpac Capa Alpha sorority Incorporated member of the zetak kai Omega chapter in the Alexander Arlington Virginia area and I’ve been with the chapter 4 of just a few years but I’ve been a member of alpha cap Alpha for
Several years thank you and thank you and welcome Robin next we have Latoya a member of deltax County chapter here in County virin I’ve been a Delta for over 10 years now and I am Dr Williams is lying sister thank you great to have you Toya next we have Ashley Patterson a member
Of Sigma gamma room good afternoon everyone my name is Ashley Patterson um I am a member of Sigma gamar Authority Incorporated um and I crossed I crossed at the University at Buffalo um in Buffalo New York at the University of Buffalo um and so I will be coming up on seven
Years of being a member of sgro so I’m excited to be here and be a part of the conversation thank you Ashley great to have you and last but not least we have Stephanie holder a member of Z good afternoon ladies hope you all can hear me uh my name is Stephanie holder
And I’m proud member of Zeta 5 Beta sorority Incorporated the beta Zeta chapter um I have been with beta Zeta for a number of years I am a charter founder of Sigma Pi the undergraduate chapter of Zeta beta uh we had the first line to cross in
1997 and after that I of course uh graduated and joined uh beta Zeta grad chapter of of Washington DC and I’ve been with the grad chapter since 2000 it’s very nice to see everyone thank you great to have you Stephanie and with that I’ll hand it over to our moderator
CR Gibbs to engage this panel discussion CR uh hello everyone uh if you’re want be pleased and honored to be the only Thorn among so many roses so I’m very very happy very honored uh let’s get into our our our questions and I’d like to know why each of
You was motivated to join your particular sorority come on y’all dive in or or I’ll go by alphabetical order you won’t be able to escape I I I’ve always been interested in Delta um as a matter of fact the the my first job was given to me by Sora as
As a matter of fact I was hired first to be her babysitter and then I started to do other things for her and um I think like many of you many um women that actually they were very instrumental and and who I am now um they were either teachers or um
Family friends they were members of Delta Sigma Theta and I saw the work that they were doing and I absolutely wanted to be you know a part of that so that was my motivation thanks a lot I’ll jump in really quickly um for me I actually had a church member when I
Was growing up um take me to different events um that her chapter would hold um and so I think just seeing that and seeing how instrumental um you know these women were um that would hold these events and how like how excellent um I would say um
They just they they uplifted one another at the events and brought other young people in um to their community so for me that’s why I decided to become um a member of sgro um and also I would say um something else that was instrumental for me in joining a sorority was watching
YouTube videos and seeing um different women talk about their experience and also just seeing um women that I aspire to be like be a member of my sority um so for example um missusa um Des Barber is a member of Sigma gamma R sority Incorporated um so
I would say just seeing so much black Excellence um definitely inspired me to be to become a member thank you thank you very much sister Ashley all right we haven’t gotten everyone just yet I’ll I’ll jump in um as a a returning adult student going to American University as an undergraduate
Finishing up my undergrad um most of my classmates were obviously younger than I was and um when the Zetas came on to campus and I went to a meeting and they talked about their values they talked about all of the programs that they were involved with um some of them were
Closer to my age which didn’t hurt um and I just was you know really really interested and then once they said that they wanted to see if they could get an undergrad chapter at AU I was down for the movement I said okay fine let’s try
And get this done um and once we did I’ve never I’ve never been uh sorry about it I think it’s one of the best things that’s happened to American University and we just celebrated our 25th CH aniversary so very happy about that but I was very interested in their
Values and um the finer women that belong to Zeta beta and congratulations and thanks uh all right my sisters I believe we have a couple more so I will go I can’t say that my reason for joining is like the rest of you I remember when I was in junior high
School now that’s how how old I am was Junior High School back back then I went with my parents to take my brother to Virginia state and I saw these ladies walking across campus in their pink and green and I’m like wow I want to be one
Of them one day and as I got older and learn more about the sorority I thought you know what that is something that I would like to do because I I am a servant at heart and Dr Williams can tell you I’m a servant at heart and I’m
Always involved in doing something and just the values that they they have they showed I knew that that was the right place for me thanks a lot thanks a lot well I will make the assumption that that is it unless someone else has something to
Add and I’ll go right on to uh question two was there an expectation to join your particular sorority because of your family Legacy and this is open I would so I would say there was not an expectation for me to join like a par a particular um sorority because of my
Family Legacy I’m actually one of the first women in my family to join the divine nine um so I believe that I’m actually creating a legacy for my family so I’m hope I’m hopeful that you know my daughters that come after me my nieces that they will also want to be a member
Of Sigma gamar r sority Incorporated um just because of the Legacy that I’m currently building thank you so much H sister Ashley um I was not a legacy uh at the time Zeta 5 beta pretty much looked at everyone as an individual so you couldn’t automatically assume because
You were the daughter niece Aunt cousin of uh a Zeta that necessarily that would be the be all endall um so and I was also uh like Ashley I was the first person in my immediate family um that was part of a sori although I did have a
An aunt who was a Delta um but I decided on Zeta because I thought it would it would fit me in the best way all right all right did we get sister Latoya to comment I comment earlier but I will comment now I am the first and only Greek in my
Family so no expectations all right thanks a lot what were your expectations of sorority life and certainly sister Latoya we we can start off with you again uh and put it in your capable hands what were your expectations of sorority life um um first and foremost for me because I you
Know I came uh from a very family a very family very close family just Sisterhood but more more importantly I think just the um the service absolutely very very philanthropic heart so um I think that we’re absolutely are better together and because I absolutely love serving people
I want it to be with like-minded women that also love serving people so I think service absolutely service and Sisterhood all right all right anyone else so again the what were your expectations that’s the question on the floor anyone else um I’ll jump in um I expected to be
With a group of people where I could gain more knowledge about things that I had very little knowledge in um and that has come to pass because we have so many very ious um events that are that take place um and members are working with the American Cancer Society the March of
Dimes um at some point we collect clothes for for infants um this month is domestic violence month so there’ll be some information on that um polit being politically aware we um are involved with the National Association of negro women so there’s so many different pieces of information that come out that
Either you can read about or listen to so I think that was one of the reasons why um I um thought that it would be that I could be involved with some of that and just the general knowledge that that is shared amongst everyone I think
Is is proved to be really helpful for me no thank you so much anyone else this is Robin I had no expectations in terms of Sisterhood because I’ve always been a loner I’m an introvert but I’m a worker and you can put me to work
And I will do whatever you need me to do but as far as and and I didn’t have sisters or anything like that so you know as a being a loner I’m just thinking well you know I’m gonna be with women who are doing good work and I’m
GNA be a part of that that was my expectation not being a part of Sisterhood but I’ve recently discovered well not recently but over the years that Sisterhood really is a part of it and recently when my mother passed away my chapter members really reached out and surrounded me with love because
That’s what sisters do it certainly is what values do you believe all sororities all black sororities have in common and Robin let’s let’s start with you what what values do you believe all black sororities have in common I think a number of them one is not only Sisterhood but just caring about people
Uplifting one another supporting one another because it’s important sometimes we feel like we’re beaten down and we need someone to just hear us and to value US for who we are as people and I believe that all of our sororities do that we value each other we lift each
Other up and we surround each other when we need to surround each other with love and compassion and we make each other better all right thank you thank you sister Robin uh L LaToya or Ashley I can jump in um I would say there’s a few values that I
Think all of the sororities have in common so I would say the first one is education um a lot of a lot of members from the divine nine sororities like um we become members either at the undergraduate or graduate um Collegiate level um I became a member during my
Undergraduate studies um so I would say education is very important I know my sority was founded uh the founders um they were it was very important for them to uphold their education um the next thing that I would say is public service um like all of the
Ladies have said so far um you know some of the some of the expectations that when you join a sorority that you will be um a leader in the community um and then along with public service I would say activism because a lot of our sororities were founded um to give black
Women specifically a place to um have Community when we were shut out of um you know the traditional communities um and organ organization so I would definitely say activism um so those are the those are um that’s what I think that all of our sororities have in
Common okay I believe I thank thanks thanks a lot sister Ashley I believe we are looking for one more answer if there’s one available um okay I’ll jump in um I think one of the things that we look that very seriously are is uplifting youth um we’ve had stuff the truck and
You know for books um making sure that the younger people have information that they will need to to help them U make it through their educational Journey um and also uh Zeta looks outside of just the normal Community we also look at our our Soros that are from the Caribbean uh
Some Sor that are from Africa so there’s this General uh knowledge Bank of exchanging information and trying to help uplift um that’s one of the the main values I think we have thank you thank you very much sister Stephanie uh uh sisters what do you believe distinguishes black sororities from White
Sororities um I think I think uh the members of the divine nine not only just the women but men alike we are pretty much active um even after college I think that is the major difference it’s like we lit we we believe that you know
That we’re in this for a lifetime and so we do a lot of great work even after we graduate from our universities and I think that is the major difference in my opinion okay thank you thank you sister Latoya um ladies what do the rest of you think are
The I actually agree with her I’m sorry I actually agree because when I sometimes tell my colleagues I’m going to do something with my sority chapter they’re like what sority I thought that you you’re not in college so how do you have a s like we have
Graduate chapters and we continue to do service and do work and so I agree that that we continue to work after college and university graduation thank you thank you sister I think that uh black sororities are a little bit different in the sense that I want to
Think that our focus at least for the divine nine is looking at marginalized populations and trying to do Outreach for marginalized and I mean you anyone that that may be of color or maybe of other um I think there’s a lot of that it’s it’s hard for me to say I’m not as
Knowledgeable about uh White um female um organizations so it’s kind of hard to say how much I’m sure they do Outreach but I know our our primary one of our primary focuses is to work with the Divine n and panel and try to to Really um work with marginalized
Communities thank you thank you very much anyone else want to share then we we walk into the how did the experience shape each of you how did your experiences as a sorority sister shape you so since you’re you’re already up sister Stephanie I’ll start with you oh okay um my
Trajector trajectory would be a little might sound a little odd but what I really focused on once I was with Zeta and saw the need that’s out there in the community um I felt like somewhat working behind the scenes if you will so my first job out of college uh I went to
Work for the uh DC Department of Mental Health and I worked in it and I made sure that people were focused on minorities and ward8 um we did a lot of work behind this I did a lot of work behind the scenes so it’s not like I was a volunteer but I was
Actively working and trying to do the best that I could do for for these marginalized uh communities and I found that to be extremely helpful and what I would tell other sorority members is if you’re at work keep that in the back of your head how is this helping others um
How is this service that you’re doing doing that you’re working in providing uplifting providing changes uh for them and I think that’s that’s one of the things that I uh learned I learned to focus my focus became a lot better after being a sari member okay thanks sisters uh Latoya and Ashley how
Did shape you um I’m just now more mindful about relationships uh when we get into or these organizations uh primarily you know um uh all female organizations we just have to be mindful about how we treat and care for each other um and so whe it doesn’t even matter the color
That you that you wear like relationships are important and black women are we are a Powerhouse together when we come together we are absolutely amazing so I absolutely believe that um the relationship component um has has been my focus and it’s still sh yeah thank
You I would say um for me I think um being a part of Sigma gamar Ro sority Incorporated has shaped me um and my leadership skills right like I think when you are a member of um any organization really um but specifically um the D9 right I think the
Expectation is that you know you are coming behind some really great people um women and so um for me um you know I recently graduated from business school and so um you know in the classroom right like the expectation is that you are involved um you’re participating um you’re prepared I mean
I think those same the same expectations that you know you have and your sorority you take with you throughout life and I would say leadership is definitely one of those um skills that I have gained from being a member of my sorority all right do anyone else have a similar experience
Okay let’s go to uh what did Sisterhood mean to you before joining your sorority and what does it mean to you after joining your sorority and I’m not going to let you go just yet Ashley I’m gonna put that on you um what did Sisterhood mean to you
Before joining your sorority and what does it mean now after you you’ve been in the sorority yeah I would say um I think before I joined my sorority um you I mean at least for me I I thought of um some of the things that I
Did think of um before joining would be like oh okay like strolling um and you know having fun but I think um after becoming a member like I feel like you just put you kind of put a face to the name almost um and I I
Guess what I mean by that um I think it was um Robin who mentioned that she lost a loved one um and so I think I I can uh emphas uh emphasize with that just because um you know I think when you go through hard times like you have sisters
And sorority members who are there for you um sometimes I was just in the mall um this was maybe two weeks ago um and I had my SG Rose sweatshirt on and these two women they came up to me they didn’t have their colors on so I I really wasn’t paying them much
Attention but they came up to me you know and so excited like hey what’s up girl like hey um hey Sor so I mean and they didn’t know they were they were from another state and so I think just having that Sisterhood and that camaraderie um with other women no
Matter where you go in the world um it is it really is amazing um and something that I will always value um no matter what so I would say um I would say The Sisterhood and the community that you gain um from being a part of the sorority it’s it’s topnotch like there’s
There’s no comparison um in it so that’s what it means for me um after all right thank you very much I know some of you must have had some similar experiences would you care to share with us so I am the oldest of Two And when I
Heard the question I chuckled a bit because if you have siblings then you know you have sibling robbery and all the other good stuff and so the only thing that I can I can say I mean to both parts of that question is the greatest of these is is love so it
Doesn’t matter whether you’re arguing or whatever the case may be um I think lover love covers you know covers a multitude so I will say that um love definitely um because you know as you bicker you come back together as um uh miss Robin said you know she lost um a
Loved one well I actually had a Health crisis back in 2021 and I actually had sores that actually that was there for me through thick and thin they pray with me they prayed for me so Sisterhood definitely I I would say the love component is um to answer the answer to
Both of those questions thanks a lot appreciate it Stephanie um I’m I’m a a DC transplant I came from New York um and I think there was just such a huge difference uh coming here from New York uh Washington was in my opinion kind of clickish um
Kind of standoffish a little bit I didn’t really know that many people here so it was kind of hard to fit in sometimes but once I joined the sority all that changed I mean they were they were my sisters from from beginning to end they’re always there for me um when I
Had you any problems you know I had lost a parent and um they were there they were the first people to be there and and I just think that the camaraderie um the Warmness I felt this just sense of warmth from them and I always feel it
And I I think I had the same situation as Ashley did I was I was walking somewhere um I didn’t have on any of my par and but I saw um Zeta and she had her Zeta shirt on and I went over immediately and said oh hello Sora how
Are you and we exchanged which Which chapter we were with and there were these hugs and I thought this is just like it happens all the time it’s just a beautiful beautiful thing so I think that um after joining um that came to pass before that um not so much I found
DC to be a little different than than my hometown but now I feel very welcome great thanks a lot anyone else yeah ahead before joining sorority I as I said before was was more of a loner um because I just found that the people that I thought were my friends really weren’t my
Friends so I tried to just wall myself off from people and I just didn’t let people get close to me um but now joining a sority I realize that you know people aren’t all like that and that we can come together and we can support each other and just love each other
Unconditionally regardless and so that has been a complete 180 for me thanks a lot but before you go what is uh if you joined as a college student what was it like in college to be a member of of your sorority well I wanted to join during
During college but I was a civil engineering major and so I did not have time to join Authority I joined grat chapter and so that was a little different but it it didn’t really matter I thought you know I always thought when know were people look at me differently
Would they think differently about me because I didn’t join as an undergrad and it really doesn’t matter once you’re a member of the sority you are a member and it doesn’t matter when you joined thank you uh Ashley yes so for me I did join um uh
During undergrad um and so I would say um my experience I was heavily involved in um the I was heavily involved with my chapter um and doing community service um so I was really like leading the community service for my chapter um and then I would say just like my line
Sisters and I in our chapter like it’s like having so many best friends um for me I I feel um joining during undergrad um so I mean again the The Sisterhood that you gain um from joining during undergrad and when you’re I would say like during undergrad probably the
Difference um and undergrad and grad chapter is like you are around these women a lot so you get to spend a lot of time with them um if you’re joining in college um that was my experience being able to um work hard right like going to the library to study with your line
Sister but also being able to go and have fun like on the weekends um so that was my experience um joining an undergrad all right thank you Stephany um my experience I guess was um a little different because there there was not a chapter at American U uh
Before 1997 so um we learned a lot as the first line from our the the sorors who were with the grad chapter I mean they worked with us day in day out to uh make sure that the chapter would get charted um and it was just a phenomenal
Experience and we were um we would have little different um events at American U um we would um help with um service projects um and learn the various values that was expected of us so I think was a wonderful experience as as an undergrad
It was tough but it was great and um the grad chapter a lot more responsibility I will say that a lot more responsibility um and just a world of various different activities organizations events you name it if you no matter what you’re interested in there’s something that you can do to
Provide service and I think the grad chapter is is all about is all about that um the undergrads are still trying to make it through through their college courses and spending lots of time at the library uh but uh certainly they they get involved as well but after after
Graduation and going to grad school a lot more is expected of you so I think that’s kind of the difference well let’s um take it from from there would anybody else care to share about if they’ve had a postgrad experience and and what you gained from your sorority experience as an
Alumna all right well we’ll we’ll go on and and get to the next one it’s not only lifechanging in many ways is what I’m getting from from all of you uh it touches you on a personal level and it touches your circle of friends but if there
Was one thing that you could change about your black sorority experience what would it be and I’m not going to put you on the spot uh Stephanie if anyone else that wants to touch on that I’ll be we’ll be happy to listen once again if there was
One thing you could change about your black sority experience what would it be okay Latoya is gonna make me call on her I I I I can see that as it as it goes so sister Latoya what about it no i’ I’ve given this great thought and you
Said some something that I would change I think everything that I’ve gone through has made me a better person you know what I mean whether it be um good or not so good you know it has challenged my thought process I will say um extending grace and mercy because we
All need it right we we’re we’re not perfect by no shape or form of the imagination so um I will um the ability to see uh the humanist in us all right and to extend um compassion that’s probably one thing I would change to extend more compassion thanks a lot uh
Ashley I think that’s a tough question um you may need to come back to me I’m still thinking honestly it’s it’s hard to say what I would change about my experience I um I think you know no experience is per perfect um so I don’t know that I would really change anything
About my experience overall yeah okay Robin for a while I would have said not being able to pledge as an undergraduate but then I realized that you know things happened for a reason and maybe it was not meant for me to pledge then because maybe my temperament
Wasn’t good enough to do it maybe I it was just something about that part time in my life that it was not meant for me to pledge so now I would say there’s really nothing that I would change I think everything just worked out the way
That it should be um I’ve been able to extend my opportunities to work with youth which is what I really love I’ve worked on our scholarship committee I’ve worked with our debutant for our catian so it’s given me opportunities to to continue to do some of the things that I
Really enjoy doing so I don’t think I would change anything at this point in my life that’s a powerful endorsement thanks a lot okay and it is a deep question in many respects so is there anyone that wants to add anything before we go to uh the next
Question if there was one thing you could change about your black sorority experience what would it be anyone upon reflection anything you want to add any of you okay we’ll go ahead how can the black sororities help the black community tackle crime and improve educational outcomes for our black children okay
Stephanie oh okay um I was uh recently at our alumni reunion our Greek alum KN reunion at AU and um this same question came up believe it or not at at the um at the reunion and there were two Soros um not Zetas but two two sores of the
Divine nine and both were Educators and what they suggested is that it needs to start earlier working with youth to divert their attention from crime to educate them to make resources available for them and one educator mentioned high school and the other Sor uh also a teacher in our
Primary school she said you we need to start even earlier than that we’re talking we’re talking um you know uh K through 12 and I was like Wow and she said she really believed that that would make a major difference in what we’re seeing now in terms of crime among youth
Um she thought that resources for the parents because they’re busy a lot of them are working um there are all these socioeconomic factors that come into play so there needs to be something and I think that’s um that’s one of the things that um possibly sororities and
Fraternities can do to try in and make changes with the youth great thanks much um Latoya uh I was just a use our voice to just speak up I mean sometimes you know we you know I will say that you know looking at uh women we have we all have
Connections to someone and I believe everything we need literally is at our table we just have to use our voice and speak up and speak out so I might not be able to do it but I might need to be able to call on one of you know one of
You or you may have someone in your circle that actually can do what need to be done so don’t be afraid to use your voice to speak up and speak out thanks okay anyone else here to add um so our my alumni chapter Zeta Kai Omega we actually have a program where
We work with youth um there are like six grades and we go in there we teach different things we’ve done Financial liter literacy seminars we talk about just just things in general to help them and so I think if you start younger it’s better because then they have something
To build upon but as you know when kids are are teenagers you know 16 17 years old they’ve already got their minds made up that adults don’t know anything that they know everything and so you need to start younger to help them to understand the things that are expected of them if
They’re to grow up to be responsible people in Society um one of the other things that I like to do is to talk to Children about intellectual property because kids are brilliant and they come up with all kinds of inventions and so if we start with them young talking about becoming entrepreneurs developing
Software developing things that are going to make Society better and how to protect that Pro intellectual property that’s another Avenue to give them to direct their attention towards something positive H okay all right I I tend to uh agree with uh Sora Robin um I think that it’s extremely important and and now
Reflecting on that that prior question about what would you do if you could change anything one of the things I would I would like to see happen and I don’t know if it’s happening now because it’s been 25 years since I was in grad school um I would see like to see more
Information for our youth to understand what’s out there there available for them in terms of career choice is there something that they could say oh you know I might be interested in this or I might see a mentor and be interested in something else when I was going through
School there there weren’t that many jobs that they spoke about in terms of let’s say a female becoming an engineer you know it was teacher it was it was many many many different things uh and now Ai and everything else as s Robin was saying you know there’s this whole
Digital world out there um and I think that if we can be more proactive instead of reactive uh I think that that would be helpful in gearing people so that they can the young can look at the trajectory that they can take going forward I also think that that whole generation you
Know I’m very interested in seeing people figure ways to develop generational wealth no one talked about about investing when I was in you know my classes there was no such thing I think something like that could also be very very helpful because what the UN some of the
Undering reasons why we have all of this crime is is economic um and if we can push people towards okay you’re a major what has has got to do with once you start making money how you’re going to then invest it or save or you know so
That people can um uplift themselves so I think that’s something that could be looked at okay thanks a lot is there such a thing as Sisterhood outside of the sorority and this is address to each of you is there such a thing as Sisterhood outside of the
Sorority and if you could provide an example or two of what you think that means to you okay I’ll go so I have a friend that we met in the third grade and we have been friends ever since we took a trip in January to visit her daughter in
South Korea when she was teaching English there we’ve been friends for I hate to say almost 50 years but that is I we’re like sisters we we know everything about each other and so yes there is a Sisterhood outside of the sorority it’s just a little bit different because that relationship has
Been building for like I said almost 50 years now where we have gone through trials and tribulations we’ve been there for each other’s children’s births and her divorce and all kinds of things so yes there is Sisterhood outside of of sorority thanks thanks Robin appreciate it uh
Ashley I would agree I think there’s definitely Sisterhood outside um of sorority life um I think as women we need especially as women I think we need to we have to hold on to our friendships and our Sisterhood like our sis our uh sister circles I would say um and I
Would say you know for me as a young adult um and someone who is just growing and blossoming um in her in my career um you know as I’m moving to different states um and you know trying new things I definitely need the support
From other women um and so so for me I uh during grad school I lived in Massachusetts um and one of my very close friends I had a very difficult time um I would say uh building Community um in the Boston area um but I found one friend who was really there
For me um through a lot of things that I had gone through and you know she would come over to my apartment on a Friday night and we would have wine night and just you know ketchup um we would go out to restaurants and you know do different
Things on the weekend together so I would and she’s not a part of my sorority um so I would definitely say there’s um Sisterhood outside of sorority life for sure oh thank you thank youe go go right ahead go right ahead I agree there’s Sisterhood outside of uh The Sur
I meet every morning every weekday morning with uh five ladies um I’m working on my dissertation and I meet with them they’re my writing group we meet every morning they’re all doctors now Alicia is one of them uh and it’s uh one is in AKA and of course there’s there’s Dr Alicia over
There but the rest of them are not they’re not sorority members but they are definitely my sisters I mean they’re there my ride or die buddies um and they are going to make sure that I make it through to the Finish Line um so and they’re different denominations uh different religions
Different races but we all are uh working very diligently they’re busy writing articles and getting ready to present at conferences as postdocs and they’re dragging this little sister along so that I can finish so definitely Sisterhood after um after outside of the SAR for sure thank you sister Stephanie uh
Latoya I concur like absolutely there is Sister Hood outside of sorority I have um one of my best girlfriends as a matter of fact my two closest friend one is a Zeta the other is the Delta we’ve been we’ve been thick as feeds for 20 plus years I have my church members and
Many things that we you know talk about inside of our sorority are some of the very very similar things that we talk about outside so absolutely there is Sisterhood outside of sorority life absolutely fantastic I do have one other example um so I had someone who’s a dear
Friend to ask me to write her a letter so that she could potentially become a member of another sority and because I love her so much I did that I was like no I don’t want to do it but I did it anyway and so yes there is Sisterhood outside of
Sorority indeed indeed thank you so much well uh sisters uh that’s about it for me I’m going to turn you over back over uh to uh Dr Williams and I want to thank you for your uh wonderful answers and and stressing as all of you did in very ways the importance of of
Relationships and and indeed even love all of which helps to undergird the the very Sisterhood movement uh thank you again um and Dr Williams I’ll turn it back over to you thank you CR and thank you Stephanie and Robin and Toya and Ashley for being here my fellow
Sorors um it was a great time hearing from you and it was it was wonderful and beautiful to hear how much we have in common um and so much that brings us together again to Toya’s Point centering on love uh so with that I will hand it
Over to Lisa who will close us out from this session thank you I would like to thank all of our panelists for sharing your Insight on your sorority experience during and after college it was fascinating discussion I learned so much and I’m sure our audience did too thank you so
Much and have a wonderful week take care thank you bye-bye byebye
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