Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was organized on the campus of Howard University by five illustrious and industrious women: Arizona Cleaver Stemmons, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, Pearl Anna Neal and Fannie Pettie Watts. The founders sought to establish a new organization based on the ideals of Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood and Finer Womanhood. The sorority is the sister organization to Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. The two organizations are the only constitutionally bound brother-sister organizations in the National Pan Hellenic Council.     

Since its inception, the sorority has grown to more than 100,000 women worldwide. There are more than 500 collegiate and graduate chapters, divided into nine regions in the United States and Africa. The sorority also has chapters in Nassau, Bahamas; Germany; and St. Croix. The organization was the first to have chapters in Africa. 

Grand Basileus Soror Dr. Barbara West Carpenter 

Currently, the Sorority is under the leadership of International Grand Basileus Dr. Barbara West Carpenter and the Executive Board: 
 

• Soror Dr. Shirley J. Bowles, National First Anti-Basileus
• Soror Dr. Nell W. Ingram, National Second-Anti Basileus
• Soror Keisha Miller, National Third Anti-Basileus
• Soror Natasha Y. Williams, National Grammateus
• Soror Rosa T. Brown, National Tamias
• Soror Jalene Chase, National Phylacter
• Soror Valerie Hollingsworth Davis, Chair, National Executive Board
• Soror Dr. Jylla Moore Foster, Past Grand Basileus
• Soror Dr. Eunice S. Thomas, Past Grand Basileus
• Soror Dr. Edith V. Francis, Past Grand Basileus
• Soror Myrtle Ballard, Chair, National Trustee Board
• Soror Alice Craft, National Trustee Board
• Soror Edwina Lindsey, National Trustee Board
• Soror Marilyn Brooks, National Trustee Board
• Soror Beatrice Nelson, National Trustee Board
• Soror Krystal Rush, Graduate Member at Large
• Soror Eboni Crayton,  Undergraduate Member at Large
• Soror Yovanda L. Deason, Graduate Member to the Exec. Board
• Soror Renee Seabrook, Undergraduate Member to Exec. Board
• Soror Lois Hardiman, Undergraduate Member to the Nominating Comm.

 

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