This week, for the first time in three decades, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will host its North Atlantic Regional Conference in Boston. From today through Feb. 22, thousands of members from the first historically African American sorority will attend workshops, speeches and form intergenerational connections at the Thomas M. Menino Conference Center in the Seaport District.

Cultivating a space for AKAs of all generations to celebrate the sorority’s legacy, the organization’s 95th regional conference will feature a number of thought-provoking discussions, professional development sessions and many notable speakers.

Events will kick off with a public meeting on this evening with a number of elected officials in attendance, including U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley. ABC News anchor Linsey Davis will preside over ceremonies, and Rev. Otis Moss III of Chicago’s Trinity United Church will serve as the keynote speaker.

The following days will include several, large member-focused social events such as “The Ivy Classic: A Homecoming Takeover Step Show & Party” headlined by DJ Kid Capri. The step show, taking place Feb. 20 at 9:30 p.m., is the other event aside from the initial public meeting that is open to the community.

The rest of the conference is focused on community development, providing a number of workshops and panels catered toward professional development for all AKA members. The “Black Women Healing Communities: A Health Careers Panel & Networking Mixer” is one of many that exist among a wide array of career fields to aid in leadership development and skill advancement.

This year’s NARC is unique in its intergenerational representation. Among about 5,000 attendees, 10 will be diamond members, having reached 75 years with AKA. They will be honored along with members who’ve reached key milestone years, starting from 25 years, at the Jewels Luncheon.

“I want to make sure that when people pay their money to come to a conference, they leave with learning something,” said Elicia Pegues Spearman, now closing out her four-year term as North Atlantic regional director. “They meet a new friend, and they’re rich on numerous levels.”

Spearman designed the theme for the conference: “The Homecoming: A legacy of F.I.R.S.T.” as a testament to the values shared by AKA members. The acronym stands for fellowship, innovation, respect, serve and thrive.

“I know what my legacy is. I know what I’m leaving my region,” said Spearman, an attorney who works as CEO of Girl Scouts of Connecticut in her home state. She was initiated into the Lambda Upsilon Chapter of AKA in 1984 as an undergraduate at Wellesley College.

Other events include workshops on how to serve and pitch on a board, and a “first -timers forum” for younger members to become integrated into the AKA community.

“When it comes down to curating workshops that are applicable to the very demographics of our organization, we’re just mindful to make sure we have a bit of everything,” said Nancy Rousseau, vice chair of social for NARC. She added that Spearman will be leaving on an “exceptionally high note.”

She also explained the importance of intergenerational programming to cater to all members of the AKAs.

Rousseau grew up in Rhode Island, and as a first-generation student of Haitian descent she hadn’t known much about Greek life until she entered college. First encountering Alpha Kappa Alpha as an undergraduate at Northeastern University, it quickly became something she had a “natural connection” with.

For her, becoming an AKA meant not only finding sisterhood among likeminded people, but being able to home in on her desire to help others through service: a cornerstone of AKA’s mission to be of “Service to All Mankind.”

Members will also take part in the donation drive “Putting the Home in Homecoming” throughout the conference. Collecting essential items such as hair care products, duffel bags, bath towels, sheets and other items, they will organize donations to two organizations in the Boston area that serve children and families: Paige Academy Community Cultural Center and Home for Little Wanderers.

Leaders like Rousseau and North Atlantic Regional Conference Chairman Kafi Meadows have worked to orchestrate this NARC for over a year, supervising about 14 committees.

Also a graduate of Wellesley College, Meadows joined inspired by campus leadership and her great-aunt, the late Elma Lewis — honorary member of AKA and founder of the National Center of Afro American Artists (NCAAA) in Roxbury, where Meadows currently serves on the board of directors.

She described this conference as an especially meaningful source of joy and reflection.

“It’s just really prideful, you know, a proud moment and to really have such a big personality and someone that really is impacting kind of the work that we do, the sorority that connected to us,” Meadows said.

The conference is not only a social and professional gathering, but a business meeting. Members will elect the next regional director to take over after Spearman, whose family will be in attendance for her final conference — including her daughter, a recent addition to the AKAs.

“Being with them, being with women that I was initiated with and those who helped initiate me, is going to be really like a family affair,” she said.