Phyllis Helene Mattson

Phyllis Helene Mattson was a community college teacher of Anthropology

and Health Sciences in Silicon Valley. She graduated from the University of

California, Berkeley, received graduate degrees in Anthropology from the

University of Wisconsin and Public Health from Harvard. She started her

career in health research, culminating in a book, Holistic Health in

Perspective in 1981, then turned to teaching both Anthropology and Health Science. In 1989-90 she taught English at Shandong University in China, and in 1994 joined the Peace Corps in Nepal. She has two children and two grandchildren.

She is still writing memoirs.