Board Trustee
Golden Soror Audrey Williams Myers became a member of Lambda Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated in 1958. After graduation from Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), she became a member of Tau Omega Chapter. She began her professional career teaching elementary school and earned a master’s degree in Developmental Reading. As a founding member of the African American Teacher’s Association and a “foot soldier” in the struggle for Black Self Determination, she was active in a number of community projects during the 1960s. For example, in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn she taught in Freedom Schools that were established when the United Federation of Teachers closed the public schools, she was a child advocate for African American youngsters who were being railroaded into special education classes, and she helped secure and deliver food to university students who were participating in “Sit Ins”, protesting higher education discrimination and injustice. She was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Connecticut. Soror Audrey’s work in academia began at Morgan State University. After three years at Morgan, she returned to her home city and became an administrator/faculty member of Baruch College, CUNY. She served on many college, university, and professional committees, received university grants, and helped to create the College’s Women of Color Network during her forty-plus years at Baruch College. In 1989 she won a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. In 2001 she retired as a tenured full professor in the Baruch College Management Department.
Soror Audrey is a Life member of the NAACP and of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. She currently chairs the Chapter’s Scholarship Committee and has funded a few scholarships.