I joined Alpha Phi because each and every woman I met made me feel at home. I knew I had found my future best friends.”
I joined Alpha Phi because each and every woman I met made me feel at home. I knew I had found my future best friends.”
I feel privileged to be part of such an amazing organization of women who are as passionate as I am.”
Through joining Alpha Phi, I met my best friends, my biggest inspirations and the women who shape my life.”
Hello!
I’m Maya Lathi, Alpha Phi’s 2020 Chapter President. Thanks for stopping by our website :)
I am writing this right now from my house in California, which is challenging for a lot of reasons. One struggle is that I don’t feel like I’m home. My true home, now, is 479 Comm. Ave.
Alpha Phi has wildly changed in what it’s meant to me over the last ~3 years. As a first year, it meant feeling crazy intimidated joining this confident group of women, forming my strongest, most unique friendship with my roommate and fellow phi, and having some fun showing off my sisters on Instagram as the Director of Social Media. In my second year I moved into the house, and The Aphi hit me from all sides. I grew tighter with upperclassmen, found solace and comfort in the company of our House Director, Nellie (a real adult!), and became involved in our exec board as VP of Risk Management. Quickly, I went from feeling like an outside admirer to someone who could contribute to the way our chapter lives and breathes.
My absolute favorite part about this chapter is that we are actively changing and adjusting our traditions to support our membership. One of our members is running the Boston Marathon for an early cancer detection organization in September, so we’re shifting the philanthropic focus of our Mac n Phis fundraiser to support her. We’re valuing attendance at events that members are involved in (sports games, sustainable fashion shows, the vagina monologues, etc.) as equally important to our sisterhood as chapter-exclusive social events like mixers. One of my personal missions is to make our chapter more inclusive of LGBTQ+ people (like me :)), and our entire chapter showed out in support of this ideal by participating in an educational discussion led by the Assistant Dean of LGBTQ+ Services.
There are many ways to describe Alpha Phi- but a timeless adjective has to be “home.” It hasn’t always felt that way, but I’ve come to love and appreciate how actively our membership and leadership have been changing to make it feel that way for everyone. I am lucky to call these people my sisters, and am eternally grateful for our bonds and all they’ve given me. I hope you enjoy learning more about us from this site and our other linked social media!
AOE, Maya Lathi
April 7, 2020
