Dr. Olivia Mattis is an award-winning musicologist with a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Yale University. Twelve members of her paternal family were rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes as they escaped from Belgium in 1940; meanwhile, her maternal grandparents founded and led the Jewish Resistance there, while her mother was a hidden child. Mattis lectures widely, and delivered Keynote addresses at the 2011 Yom Hashoah commemoration of the City of Philadelphia and the 2003 Music for Our Times festival in Maine. She has organized high-profile international conferences and music festivals that have received media coverage from Good Morning America and The New York Times.
Dr. Olivia Mattis is an award-winning musicologist with a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Yale University. Twelve members of her paternal family were rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes as they escaped from Belgium in 1940; meanwhile, her maternal grandparents founded and led the Jewish Resistance there, while her mother was a hidden child. Mattis lectures widely, and delivered Keynote addresses at the 2011 Yom Hashoah commemoration of the City of Philadelphia and the 2003 Music for Our Times festival in Maine. She has organized high-profile international conferences and music festivals that have received media coverage from Good Morning America and The New York Times.