Since retiring from the Air Force in 2007, Patricia Eleazer has become a life-long learner and teacher, traveling extensively, teaching elementary school, learning gardening and foraging skills, and supporting the Alkebulan Shule, an Annapolis-based rites of passage school grounded in African cultural traditions. She also served on the Veterans Mental Health Advisory Council in Baltimore, Maryland and established a youth summer camp for boys in San Antonio, Texas. Ms. Eleazer has a passion for archaeology, particularly for the preservation of African American and Native American culture, especially since her father grew up on the Shinnecock Reservation in New York and her mother has both African and North Carolina Cherokee roots. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Howard University.