On March 21, 2020, a group of young women officially chartered Delta Phi Lambda. This sorority became the University of Tennesseeâs, as well as the state of Tennesseeâs, first Asian interest sorority. The journey to start the sorority started in 2019, when three members sought to form a group that could share some of their values as well as some of the same struggles they have faced while going to a university that is predominately white. The original Delta Phi Lambda was founded at the University of Georgia on Dec. 5, 1998, by the sororityâs founding mothers: Anh Ngoc Nguyen, Linh Khan Do, Yvonne Minh Tah, Rebecca Kim Stephenson, Carmela DeGuzman, Theresa Sung and Sarah Chong Mi Cho. According to the organizationâs recruitment co-chair Abigail Srisavath, the founders felt some disconnect from within the Asian community, and that led to the founding of the sorority.