Glenna Matthews graduated in 1969 with a bachelor in Arts degree from San José State University.
[1][2][3][4] She has been a consultant on the film Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo in 1989.
[5][6] She has written several books about American women's history.
She has received fellowships the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as being a Fulbright scholar.
[4][7] Using interviews created for her book on Silicon valley Matthews created the Glenna Matthews Oral History Collection, 1984-2014 which contains fifty-one oral histories.