alpha Kappa Delta Phi was established at the University of California, Berkeley in the fall of 1989. Four headstrong visionaries: Susan Kim, Fannie Pon, Jill Yoshimura and Reina Yuan, initiated the concept of having an organization that would provide them as well as other young college women the opportunity to experience sisterhood and to promote what they felt was integral to the development of successful women. After proposing their ideas to women at the Berkeley campus, they, along with ten strong and willful fellow women, became the founding sisters of alpha Kappa Delta Phi.
     Together as the charter class, they decided themselves to establishing a strong and lasting organization that would foster not only sisterhood, but scholarship, service, leadership, and Asian American awareness as well. The founding sisters: Betty Chu, Karin Co, Susan Kim, Nancy Lee, Sherri Leung, Annie Loo, Belinda Ma, Anita Ng, Serene Ngin, Fannie Pon, Josie Sun, Daisy Wu, Jill Yoshimura, and Reina Yuan, came together to share one another's goals for a promising union. These ideals were to later set the foundation and purpose of alpha Kappa Delta Phi.
     The love and generosity that each member had for the organization were instrumental to the growth of alpha Kappa Delta Phi's reputation as a sorority, as well as to the forging of unbreakable friendships. In its first step towards achieving widespread acknowledgement, alpha Kappa Delta Phi was recognized by the College Panhellenic Association of Berkeley, California on February 7,1990, which date is celebrated annually as National Founders' Day. The sisterhood has since then spread to prominent university campuses around the nation. To meet the needs of the growing sisterhood, the National Board of alpha Kappa Delta Phi was established in May of 1993 at the National Convention in Santa Barbara, California.
     It is the sincere wish of the founding sisters that alpha Kappa Delta Phi continue to promote the ideals on which the organization was founded and to provide each woman with resources, unique sisterly support and understanding to achieve her goals in life.

     The purpose of this sorority is to promote sisterhood, scholarship, leadership, and Asian awareness in the University and community, while encouraging the expression of the individual.

     Our mission is to provide sisterhood among women, and to promote scholarship, leadership and Asian awareness int eh University and community. Further, to provide a support group for those in their times of need and to encourage the making of successful women. To accomplish our mission, we will:

• Maintain the highest levels of quality and integrity
• Create a climate that encourages teamwork, creativity, and innocation: and above all,
• Give our absolute support and encouragement to those we hold dear to our hearts - our sisters.