Delta Phi Epsilon was founded on March 17, 1917, by five influential women at New York University Law School in Manhattan. Minna Goldsmith Mahler, Eva Effron Robin, Ida Bienstock Landau, Sylvia Steierman Cohn, and Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman took a pledge of sisterhood and so founded the Alpha Chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon.
Delta Phi Epsilon is one of the first non-sectarian, social sororities and is the only sorority founded at a professional school. There are over 100 chapters across the United States and Canada, making us an international sorority.