Lisa Oshiro Suganuma is a Policy Analyst in the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Native Hawaiian Relations and has been working in its Honolulu office since 2010. She is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools – Kapālama, Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California (B.S. in Applied Mathematics) and the University of New Mexico School of Law (J.D. and Indian Law Certificate). Ms. Oshiro has worked on matters of indigenous affairs, self-determination and self-governance for more than 25 years since working for DNA – People’s Legal Services in Shiprock, New Mexico, within the Navajo Nation and California Indian Legal Services before returning to Hawaii and working for the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement. Prior to joining the federal government, Ms. Oshiro worked for the State of Hawaii’s Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Hawai‘i State Attorney General.
