Recruiting at Carleton University, University of Ottawa and Algonquin College
In January of 2009, six young women in their second year of studies at Carleton University came together with the purpose of creating a new women's organization on campus: Paz Arias, Lauren Crosby, Jessica Doyle, Heather McBride, Lesley Walker, and myself, Laura Kell.
​After much thought and deliberation, we, the Founding Mothers of what would eventually become Alpha Pi Phi.
Alpha Pi Phi respectfully acknowledges that we convene and recruit on the traditional homelands of Turtle Island, home to thousands of Indigenous nations.