Hawaiian educator and journalist Shana Wailana Logan was born on the island of O'ahu and raised in the shadow of the Ko'olau Mountain range. Kamehameha Schools in Kapalama was a second home, where she spent most of her formal education as a youth.  She raised her family while attending the University of Hawai’i at Windward, where she was editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper. In 2006, she graduated from Hawai’i Pacific University with a degree in communications, where her print and broadcast journalism work won her awards with the Society of Professional Journalists and Hawai’i Public Television. Since 2009, Shana has lived and worked in Hilo as a Hawaiian studies teacher, cultural mentor in the public school system, and owner of Aloha Consultants.