Matt Stevens
Executive Director at Hawaiʻi Workforce Funders Collaborative
Kapaau, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Stevens is an executive director and data strategist with 15 years of experience turning complex social-sector data into actionable collaboration and policy impact. He leads mission-driven initiatives in Hawaiʻi and nationally, building data trusts, shared infrastructure, and analytic programs that help workforce systems, higher education, and nonprofit partners share data securely and measure outcomes. His background spans mathematical statistics, survey methodology, machine learning for service delivery, and hands-on data governance—skills he uses to translate technical possibilities into practical, equitable interventions. As founder of Kohala Data Group and leader at BrightHive and Benefits Data Trust, he blends nonprofit leadership with consultancy instincts to achieve quick wins on the road to long-term data impact. Based in Kapaau, Hawaii, he uniquely combines federal census experience and island-rooted community focus to champion collaborative data stewardship for the public good.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Statistics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Statistics at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleMS, Survey Methodology, MS, Survey Methodology at University of Maryland
Github Skills (3)
pii8
tax7
data-loss-prevention5
Github contributions (3)
mttstvns/handson-ml
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
brighthive/data-trust-legal
Mar 2020 - May 2020
A repository of legal agreements used by BrightHive Data Trusts
Contributions:32 commits, 26 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 month
legalagreementsbrighthivedata-truststrusts
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