Shavonn Matsuda
University of Hawaiʻi Maui College
Head Librarian
Kahului, HI
Shavonn Matsuda is from Hāna, Maui, Hawaiʻi. She is the Head Librarian at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College and the Project Director of Ka Wai Hāpai. Shavonn earned a Master’s in Library & Information Science from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and a PhD from Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi in Whakatāne, Aotearoa. Her research focuses on Indigenous knowledge organization and pathways to improve access to libraries and archives through Hawaiian epistemologies.