Finding your place at ASU: Advice from students who’ve been there
There are many high points in Arizona State University’s Fraternity and Sorority history. The 2024-2025 National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) recently added to this legacy in recognizing ASU as one of 11 collegiate Panhellenics in the country for overall excellence in operations, with specific awards in Academic Innovation, Belonging & Community Impact and Innovation in Leadership to name a few.
However, none of these awards quite capture the supportive and inspiring environment that ASU Greek life provides like the 2025 outstanding Panhellenic Advisor — Bridgette Wynn.
“I serve as a coordinator for fraternity and sorority life and primarily my role within fraternity life is I operate as the Panhellenic Council advisor,” Wynn explained. “I support our council, which is the college Panhellenic council with operations, hosting, recruitment and other member development programs.”
With a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in higher education, Wynn is currently going into her ninth year as a Panhellenic advisor at ASU. Wynn drove across the country from Michigan to become a Sun Devil after a 2011 internship at ASU left a strong impression on her.
"I really loved ASU, how forward thinking the university was,” Wynn said. “I've kind of realized how we joke a lot about being number one in innovation — but even from me working in the field I've been in for some years — it truly shows that ASU is far ahead and consistently forward thinking and pushing the edge and not being stuck to tradition.”
The environment that initially attracted Wynn here became a platform for something bigger, as she used ASU’s foundation as a New American University to help inspire the similarities in ASU’s Greek life.
“I'm a creator and I love being in a space that promotes that creativity. Then also trying to find new ways to develop and continue — to be that new American university — we said it was similar to the new American fraternity and sorority, the premier experience, so that's what we're trying to create here.”
While ASU helped provide the environment for Wynn to work toward that ideal, she had a strong connection to sorority life and a desire to create forward-thinking, community-oriented networks long before coming here.
Wynn described how her sorority sisters in graduate school helped her get to this point.
“My sisters kept me in grad school,” Wynn said. “FIU (Florida International University) was the first school I attended out of state. Being in a whole different state was completely different, and I just having that network and support system there — they made South Florida home for me.”
Her time in Phi Mu helped inspire and define Wynn’s continuous belief in the power of sorority and community that can be found through Greek life, becoming a cornerstone of her approach as a coordinator and council advisor.
“We talk to a lot of our students about finding an organization that fits their values and Phi Mu was one for me,” Wynn said. “Our core values — love, honor and truth — they’re tenets that I live by in my everyday life in so many ways. I literally keep a copy of my creed in my wallet to remind me of my organization. I love my organization experience so much that I have been a volunteer for it since 2014.”
“I truly got to create some strong connections with women I'm still close to today,” Wynn continued. “Even people who I have not chatted with in a minute, I catch up with them and it's like nothing ever changed. It continues why I love what I do and why I love creating those experiences for people to join me.”
Wynn has been hard at work creating those moments for everyone in ASU Fraternity and Sorority Life. Whether she is setting up “PNM closets” or working with chapter leadership to move bid day into the well-air conditioned Mullet Arena, Wynn takes an active “above and beyond” approach in her role.
“I've always considered myself a servant leader and an active advisor. When I say active advisor, I'm not the ‘sign a piece of paper and say okay go forth and be great,’ I do a lot of in-depth work with my chapters making sure that communication is great.”
That is the tip of the iceberg on Wynn’s hard work, and with a 2025 outstanding Panhellenic Advisor Award recognizing her great communication, it's not just talk.
“I think it is a culmination of worthwhile recognition that I've done,” Wynn said. “The work I've helped with, the community and I know that I'm good at my job. I love it. I love my girls and I tell my girls all the time ‘Y'all have no idea how much I go to bat for y'all, caring about things for you and the community.’ No one can tell me that my girls are not trendsetters and that they don't create unique experiences.”
The bond Wynn has with her girls in the sorority community is truly a special one, and she makes sure she shows them as much whenever she can.
“My favorite small thing is, on bid day, I love seeing on social media when the girls post their bid cards,” Wynn explained. “They don't know that I actually made the template. I made that bid card, so my favorite thing is that I get to be a part of a permanent memory. It's so small but it's my favorite thing that they take a picture of it — or I've seen some people have it in their little memory box — it is so cool to have left my mark on the community.”