Background
Eleneke was born December 25, 1959 in Honolulu, Hawai’i, the youngest child of Jerett Kalani Eleneke and Alene Ku’ukama’aloha Parker Eleneke-Pa’s five children.
Eleneke was born December 25, 1959 in Honolulu, Hawai’i, the youngest child of Jerett Kalani Eleneke and Alene Ku’ukama’aloha Parker Eleneke-Pa’s five children.
She transitioned while attending Kailua High School in Honolulu, where she graduated in 1977. She studied Social Justice at San Francisco State University.
Eleneke was a long-serving community leader with TGIJP, starting in 2004. As part of her work, she visited transport people at California Medical Facility (CMF) in Vacaville and other prisons. She organized letter-writing events for prisoners in California and throughout the country.
She offered workshops on spiritual healing to transport people coming out of prison and jail.
In February 2008, she and Mission Major Griffin-Gracy addressed the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva, Switzerland on the lack of economic opportunity for transgender women of color in the United States.
Among her different roles were member of the Leadership Team in 2007, director of Development and Administration from 2008-2009 and editor of the prison newsletter, Stiletto, from 2008.