Alpha Connect Sisterhood Series

Episode released July 1, 2021. On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck is joined by Cindy Rhoades Ryan, Delta Iota, as she shares her story as a prosecutor in the State of Delaware, as well as in the federal government. She was the first female Chief Counsel at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and is a recipient of Alpha Sigma Alpha’s highest honor, the Recognition of Eminence...

Episode released July 2021. On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck interviews with Krystal Geyer Slivinski, Gamma Rho, Executive Director. 

Episode released December 2, 2021. On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck chats with author and Alpha Sigma Alpha Recognition of Eminence Award Winner Denise Swanson Stybr, Gamma Lambda, about her path to becoming a New York Times Best Selling Author.  

Episode released December 16, 2021. On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck chats with Bradley Norwood, Theta Gamma, as she shares her experience with egg cryopreservation. If you want to learn more, you can contact Bradley directly at bradleymnorwood@gmail.com . 

Episode released January 13, 2022. On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck talks with Jennifer Miller Gobrecht, NN, who was the first woman to give birth via a deceased donor uterus transplant at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. To learn more about clinical trials, visit clinicaltrials.gov . 

Episode released January 27, 2022. On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck talks with Karen “Timi” Leota Bressler, Zeta Lambda, and learns about HELLP (Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelets) syndrome and preeclampsia, both dangerous conditions that Timi experienced during both of her pregnancies. To learn more, visit the Preeclampsia Foundation, preeclampsia.org...

Episode released February 10, 2022. On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck chats with Hillary Sexton, Zeta Omega, who shares how she became a burn nurse and then turns to her experiences as a traveling nurse during COVID. 

Episode released February 24, 2022. On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck chats with Marcia Kinbar Goldstein, Delta Tau, on her experience as a founding member of the chapter and her life as a Pharmacist. 

On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck chats with Janet Crook Conroy, Beta Pi, on her path to becoming a flight attendant and her new role as a regional coordinator at the Office of Drug Control Policy in West Virginia. 

On this episode, Jenn Schimmel, Zeta Delta, talks with past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck about her bone marrow transplant. You can learn more about how to become a donor at bethematch.org . 

On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck chats with Susan Maiolo Angelicola, EM, on her work as a nurse practitioner and what it’s like to live with multiple sclerosis. 

On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck chats with Lynne Rachal Chambers, A, and learns about the time she met founder Mary Williamson Hundley, A, and when she met Wilma Wilson Sharp, ZZ. Lynne also shares some history about Stubbs Hall at Longwood University and her experience as NPC Delegate. 

On this episode, past national president Kelly McGinnis Beck chats with chapter sister, Traci Trznadel Fraley, EK, as she shares the journey of her son, Jake Fraley, in becoming a Major League Baseball Player.   

In this episode, national president Amber Shaverdi Huston chats with chapter sister, Jaecy Bradford, HH, about the importance of being civically engaged, registering to vote, learning more about candidates and our own political biases and more.   

In this episode, national president Amber Shaverdi Huston chats with chapter sister, Areke Latham, HH, about her experience of going through chemotherapy for breast cancer while she was pregnant.