Kanoe Enos
Kanoe brings over 15 years of experience as a social worker to create a better life for residents of Hawaiʻi. Kanoe is the co-founder of ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance and serves clients in the areas of strategic planning, facilitation, executive coaching, and change management. Kanoe has a degree in Hawaiian Studies from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and a Masterʻs Degree in Social Work. Kanoe serves on numerous boards and resides with his ʻohana on the island of Oʻahu.
Jessica Kaneakua
Jessica Kaneakua currently works as a Partner at ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance. Born and raised in diaspora in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Dakhota lands and freshwater, Jessica came home to her ancestral piko in 2013. She moved to Molokai to do work in public health, then relocated to Hawaiʻi Island where she has worked in education, community, and non-profit sectors. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from Macalester College, a Master of Arts in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Connecticut, and a Master of Legal Studies in Indigenous Peopleʻs Law through the University of Oklahoma. When not making good trouble, she can be found with her keiki and kāne enjoying the brackish waters of Hilo. She lives with her ʻohana in the moku of Puna on Hawaiʻi Island.
Summer Keliʻipio
Summer is currently the Managing Partner of ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance and has 20+ years of experience working with both public and private sector clients.. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College and Master in Public Affairs from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Summer has worked in housing, public health, education, and social services organizations in Hawaiʻi. Her ares of expertise are executive and management coaching, strategic planning, organizational change management, research, and evaluation. Besides managing the day-to-day and strategic activities of ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance, Summer serves on the Board of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and as the Chair of the Hawaiʻi Afterschool Alliance. Summer grew up in Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu where she still resides with her ʻohana.
Shelly Tokunaga-May
Shelly has over 20 years of experience working with local families and communities as a Social Worker. For 8 years she has focused on assessment and evaluation. In 2021, she joined ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance.
Grounded in the values of our Kūpuna, Shelly believes in creating a network of support for the wellbeing of families and communities.
Shelly is from Kāneʻohe and lives in a multigenerational household with her two children.
Patria Weston
Patria has experience in community practice and leadership roles over the last 15 years and is currently working part time as a therapist for Nohona Na’au Kūpono at Kahuku Medical Center. Past roles have included: Program and Strategy Officer for Consuelo Foundation, Executive Director for Kids Hurt Too Hawaii, team member with Islander Institute, Community Change Initiative Lead serving Windward Oʻahu with Liliʻuokalani Trust, and Crisis Counselor with the Sex Abuse Treatment Center. Each of these positions included the chance to move way outside of a desk in the office to combine direct service, community partnership, and strategy development. The chance to learn from and work alongside the community has been the greatest honor and guide. Patriaʻs passion is to facilitate increased access and connections between children, youth and families through safe, healing spaces and practitioners. Her passion is to nurture a sense of belonging and community engagement that can contribute to challenging and overturning unhealthy systems and oppressive power structures.