Alpha Senior Leadership Endorses
Brother Gregory S. Parks, J.D., Ph.D.

Dear Brothers:

We write to express our strong support for Brother Gregory Parks’ candidacy to be our Fraternity’s 37^th General President.  The undersigned brothers have served on Alpha Phi Alpha’s Board of Directors, as District Directors, and as Executive Directors, and we are knowledgeable about Alpha’s governance and day-to-day operations at the highest levels. Our service to Alpha has spanned generations, and our insight about Alpha’s challenges and opportunities is broad and deep. Each of us has an abiding and profound love for Alpha, and we want what is best for it, the brotherhood, and our communities. We are confident that Brother Parks possess the skillset and embodies the fraternal spirit necessary to advance our collective mission and objectives effectively.

These are extraordinary times for our Fraternity and, quite frankly, our nation. Together, we must push beyond the traditional regional, district, chapter, and personal biases that too often reinforce the status quo. The question for us, given the extraordinary challenges that Alpha must address—some longstanding and some new—is which candidate desires, and has the capacity, to lead us to address those challenges? We seek a General President who is ethical, visionary, innovative, and transformational—one who can coalesce Alpha’s human, intellectual, and financial resources for the greatest good.

While Alpha is in a strong position to do transformative work—internally and externally—to do so, we must address a range of issues in the areas of (1) advocacy and service, (2) college and alumni relations, (3) governance, (4) liability and risk, (5) membership, (6) structure and operations, and (7) recognizing the past while creating a sustainable future. Given these challenges, Brother Parks offers a shared vision for what a substantially better future for Alpha would look like and how we can most effectively get there. He has drawn on the hopes of brothers, practical wisdom of Alpha leaders, and insights from content-matter experts.

We are committed to not only helping him get elected; we are also committed to helping Brother Parks, in large and small ways, bring about the changes needed for a more vibrant brotherhood and fraternity that rises to the occasion. We are ready for the Fraternity we have been hoping for; one that achieves its highest and greatest potential. We ask you to join us in this effort!

Signed,