Letter from the General President Brothers,

Answering the Call of Servant Leadership from our dear Fraternity is the final component of my Administration’s Elevating The Alpha Spirit platform and vision as well as echoes the centerpiece of our motto as ‘Servants of All.’

As Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. strengthens the Brotherhood and improves operational excellence, we become better positioned to provide relevant advocacy and leadership in our communities. As a business executive and Fraternity leader, I believe in center-out leadership as opposed to top-down leadership. Therefore, we have worked to Elevate the Alpha Spirit through service and advocacy that builds on the expertise of our fellow Brothers to meet the demands of our time.

To this end, we are enhancing volunteerism as well as planning and engaging in impactful advocacy. That is demonstrated through our International Day of Service and our coordinated regional advocacy days of action. In addition, we are soliciting the intellectual and professional capacity of our expert Brothers on key social issues and soon revamping Alpha University to offer curriculum to increase capacity and operationalize advocacy and action at the chapter level.

On the chapter and individual levels, this is also showcased through our persistent desire to mentor young African American males and collaborate with other organizations, including our National Pan-Hellenic Council counterparts. This ensures we leverage capacity not only across the country, but globally.

Leaders help develop more leaders, and I can think of no better way than strengthening and leveraging our Go-To-High School, Go-To-College National Program as well as other mentoring and enrichment programs chapters currently have in place to do so as well. In addition, our General Committees as well as our Ad-Hoc Committees are beginning to play a more strategic and tactical role in our initiatives and Fraternity-wide programming.

Overall, however, we must also endeavor to create a brain trust of Brotherhood capacity and community support. As with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, trainings and community discussions on virtual and digital platforms have become vitally important and more widely accepted. We are utilizing these means to further our purposes as noted with our various Surgeon General and partner co-sponsored webinars and townhalls.

Our calling as Servant Leaders is specific and critical to our brand as ‘Men of Distinction’ and what has led many of us to the portals of Alpha. Whether we now heed this calling through Fraternal office, elected office, or community service through our chapters or our personal lives, it is what affirms that ‘We Shall Transcend All!’ S

Sean L McCaskill Interim Executive Director seanmccaskill@apa1906.net