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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is an organization of college-educated women committed to the constructive development of its members and to public service with a primary focus on the Black community.
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is a private, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide assistance and support through established programs in local communities throughout the world. Since its founding, more than 300,000 women have joined the organization. The organization is a sisterhood of predominantly Black, college-educated women. The sorority currently has over 1,000 collegiate and alumnae chapters located in the United States, Canada, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Republic of Korea, the Arabian Gulf, Southern Africa and West Africa.
The major programs of the Sorority are based upon the organization’s Five Point Programmatic Thrust:
1. Economic Development
2. Physical and Mental Health
3. Educational Development
4. Political Awareness and Involvement
5. International Awareness and Involvement
For more information, visit our national website at www.deltasigmatheta.org.
In February 2022, Elsie Cooke-Holmes was installed as National President and Chair, Board of Directors of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated for the 2021-2023 biennium after serving as National First Vice President, elected in 2021, and National Secretary from 2017-2021. She joined the Sorority in 1976, in the Epsilon Kappa Chapter at the University of Memphis.
While in college, she was elected National Second Vice President and served as a member of the National Board of Directors and member, National Scholarship and Standards Committee representing the Sorority’s collegiate members.
She is the first National Second Vice President to serve as National President. Elsie has held numerous leadership positions on Delta’s local, regional and national levels, in addition to her most recent positions. She has served as Eastern Regional Director, Eastern Region member of the National Scholarship and Standards Committee, Co-Chair of the National Leadership Academy, Co-Co-Chair of the National Human Resources Committee, Chair of the Regional Restructuring Task Force, member of the National Program Planning and Development Committee and the National Information and Communications Committee, chapter president of the Westchester Alumnae Chapter and member of the Advisor’s Council of the Pi Lambda Chapter. Elsie is a currently a member of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter where she chaired the Strategic Planning Committee.
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