Alpha Kappa Alpha Inducts Actress and Singer Pauletta Pearson Washington as an Honorary Member

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated has inducted actress, singer, and musician Pauletta Pearson Washington as an Honorary Member. The induction took place during the sorority’s 72nd Boule in Las Vegas.

Pauletta Pearson Washington appeared on Broadway in Jesus Christ Superstar, Sophisticated Ladies, Shakespeare’s Cabaret, and The All Night Strut!, and as an understudy to Lynne Thigpen in Tintypes. Her off-Broadway credits include Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore and Desperate Writers at the Union Square Theater, among many others.

Pauletta Washington appeared in Debbie Allen’s Soul Possessed at The Kennedy Center, co-starred with BeBe Winans in Otis Sallid’s Spiritual, was featured with Natalie Cole in a production of A Christmas Show at Lincoln Center Theater, and was part of the original cast and touring company of Jerry’s Girls. Her other stage credits include A Night of Inspiration at Carnegie Hall and Divas Simply Singing with Chaka Khan and Teena Marie.

She played Risa in a production of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company and starred as Elizabeth Borny in a run of The Old Settler at the Billie Holiday Theatre. She also created and performed her own one-woman show for both domestic and international audiences.

Her film credits include Wilma, starring Cicely Tyson and Denzel Washington, and Purlie, starring Melba Moore, Sherman Hemsley, and Robert Guillaume. She was a featured vocalist on the soundtrack for the film Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, and a featured pianist on the soundtrack for the film Antwone Fisher.

On television, Pauletta Washington was a series regular on The Parkers, starring Mo’Nique, and appeared in Beloved with Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. She can currently be seen on Hulu’s Reasonable Doubt and previously appeared in Lifetime’s The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story, as well as the short film Steps. She also appears in season two of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It on Netflix and Genius: Aretha on Nat Geo.

Pauletta Washington was inducted as part of Alpha Kappa Alpha’s 2026 Honorary Member Class, alongside Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire, LaTanya Jackson, Merline Saintil, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Robin Washington.

The induction came as more than 25,000 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha converged on Las Vegas for the sorority’s 72nd Boule, its international meeting, held July 18 through July 24, 2026, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Convention Center. Under this year’s theme, “Soaring Together: Celebrating Our Impact on Service & Sisterhood,” the sorority anticipated as many as 27,000 members from around the world for a week of community service, leadership and educational sessions, business meetings, and celebrations of the organization’s history, all under the leadership of International President and CEO Danette Anthony Reed.

We at Watch The Yard would like to congratulate Pauletta Pearson Washington on her induction as an Honorary Member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

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