As the administration director, Matsuda is responsible for general agency administrative functions such as marketing, communications, personnel management and compliance.  Prior to starting On Board in 2018, her own business and community consulting firm in 2018, Pegi Matsuda had extensive experience in corporate and small business operations, administration, management and leadership in numerous industries.  She was also the first director of economic and community development for a global telecommunications company with operations in the western United States.  As director, she created programs that helped corporate operations identify economic and community needs and led the company’s first regional “community needs assessment” to better understand communities and identified opportunities to help thrive and grow.  She also has experience working with health care community benefit programs which help hospitals better understand communities.  Her first experience in the Watts community was serving for  five years as a volunteer with the LA Watts Summer Games. As a student of cultural art in college,  Matsuda has made many trips to the Watts Towers to study its structure and preservation practices.

She’s a highly recognize community leader and has received a variety of recognition from local business and community organizations.  She has a MS in Organizational Leadership from Woodbury University and a BS in Human Relations and Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco.  She also holds the designation as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (“CFRE”) from CFRE International and is one of only 8,000 global fundraising executives who has undergone the rigorous training to obtain the certification.