National APIA Panhellenic Association

National APIA Panhellenic Association
Data
Established	2006
Members	11
Continent	North America
Country	United States
Organization type	Coalition of Members

The National APIA Panhellenic Association (or NAPA, formerly known as the National Asian Greek Council) is an association of collegiate fraternities and sororities that was formally organized in 2006, although it began in 2005.

The founding organizations officially chartered the National APIA Panhellenic Association on August 12, 2006. The purpose of the association is to create an umbrella organization that can unite Asian Fraternities and Sororities onto common causes and facilitate communication between the various organizations.

NAPA Charter Members

alpha Kappa Delta Phi Alpha Phi Gamma Delta Kappa Delta Delta Phi Lambda Kappa Phi Lambda

Pi Alpha Phi Pi Delta Psi Sigma Beta Rho Sigma Omicron Pi Sigma Psi Zeta

History

NAPA members with Gary Locke, former governor of Washington State.

Jeanette Moy of Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority and Janelle Hu, former Executive Director of APIA Vote, met while being guest speakers for the Chinese American Intercollegiate Conference in the spring of 2004. Realizing that the Asian Greek community can be a great asset in encouraging APIA youth to vote, a campaign was started between 12 organizations with this purpose. As the various Fraternities and Sororities collaborated, they realized an umbrella organization should be created to encourage future projects. Following the success of the APIA Vote campaign (8,000 people were registered to vote), this coalition redirected its energy towards the Asian Tsunami campaign, with one organization raising over $1,600 in just one event.^[1]

The various charter Asian Greek organizations were invited to attend the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) National Convention to meet more APIA youth leaders and learn skills to improve their respective campuses. At the convention, representatives decided to name their coalition the National Asian Greek Council to promote a united national front. Alice Siu of Sigma Psi Zeta was appointed the first chair of the National Asian Greek Council. Melissa Montenegro of Delta Phi Lambda and Akash Kuruvilla of Sigma Beta Rho developed the current constitution.

The National Asian Greek Council gained much public notice by being noted as a Silver Sponsor and featured in the brochure of the East Coast Asian American Student Union conference.

As more restructuring was taking place, the name was further changed to National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association (NAPA) to represent a coalition governance in place of a council.^[2]

Executive Board

NAPA's Board of Presidents in a meeting session.

• Executive Chair - Maria S. Iglesia, Delta Phi Lambda
• Vice Chair - Gordon Wong, Pi Alpha Phi
• Secretary - Hannah Seoh, Delta Phi Lambda
• Programming Chair - William Xu, Pi Delta Psi
• Expansion Chair - Phillip Lopez, Pi Delta Psi
• NAPA Advisor - Mary Peterson
• NAPA Advisor - Brian Gee

Note: Positions on the Executive Board not listed here includes the Board of Presidents and the Advisory Board.^[3]

Members

The members of the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association are shown below in alphabetical order.

Official Members	Date/Place Founded	Year Joined	Active Chapters	Charters Granted
alpha Kappa Delta Phi	February 7, 1990 (1990-02-07) (21 years ago) University of California, Berkeley	2006	42	48
Alpha Phi Gamma	February 1, 1994 (1994-02-01) (17 years ago) California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	2006	10	10
Delta Kappa Delta	October 1, 1999 (1999-10-01) (12 years ago) Texas A&M University	2006	7	7
Delta Phi Lambda	December 5, 1998 (1998-12-05) (12 years ago) University of Georgia	2006	12	4
Kappa Phi Lambda	March 9, 1995 (1995-03-09) (16 years ago) Binghamton University	2006	28	29
Lambda Phi Epsilon	February 25, 1981 (1981-02-25) (30 years ago) University of California, Los Angeles	2010	38	49
Pi Alpha Phi	February 1, 1929 (1929-02-01) (82 years ago) University of California at Berkeley	2006	12	14
Pi Delta Psi	February 20, 1994 (1994-02-20) (17 years ago) Binghamton University	2006	27	28
Sigma Beta Rho	August 16, 1996 (1996-08-16) (15 years ago) University of Pennsylvania	2006	34	41
Sigma Omicron Pi	January 1, 1930 (1930-01-01) (81 years ago) San Francisco State University	2006	12	13
Sigma Psi Zeta	March 23, 1994 (1994-03-23) (17 years ago) University at Albany, SUNY	2006	19	23

Citations

1. ^ "NAPA Projects". http://www.napa-online.org. http://www.napa-online.org/Site/Pages/About/NAPAProjects.php. Retrieved 2010-01-24. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "About NAPA". http://www.napa-online.org. http://www.napa-online.org/Site/Pages/About/About.php. Retrieved 2010-01-23. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ "NAPA Executive Board". http://www.napa-online.org. http://www.napa-online.org/Site/Pages/About/ExecBoard.php. Retrieved 2010-01-24. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Official National APIA Panhellenic Association website