Hauʻolihiwahiwa Moniz is a Native Hawaiian sociologist, community educator, cultural practioner, and librarian from the ʻili of Keahupuaʻanui in Kailua, Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu.

Moniz holds a Master of Arts in Hawaiian Studies and a Master of Library and Information Science with a certificate in Archives from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her scholarly work as a librarian has focused on creating Hawaiian knowledge organization systems in libraries, using traditional Hawaiian religious classification systems to organize and interpret collection materials. She also served as the first Indigenous Initiatives Librarian in the University of Hawaiʻi system at Hamilton Library, UH Mānoa, where she was the principal investigator for a Mellon-funded research study on the state of Indigenous librarianship, recording the information landscapes and community recommendations from over 40 Indigenous communities globally.

Within Hawaiian Studies, Moniz introduced the concept of Native Hawaiian Lateral Violence into academic discourse, exploring how identity formation, belonging, and cultural self-efficacy are shaped within Hawaiian language and cultural revitalization spaces. Her master’s thesis, "On the Standard of Being Hawaiian Enough: Native Hawaiian Lateral Violence and Contemporary Hawaiian Language Acquisition," was the first research study globally to specifically investigate how lateral violence affects Indigenous language learning outcomes.

In her free time, Moniz enjoys chanting, hiking, identifying Hawaiian plants in the mountains, and writing Hawaiian children’s books that promote Native Hawaiian identity and belonging for ʻŌiwi youth.