Mat­ta Fre­und is a for­mer eval­u­a­tor for the Depart­ment of Vis­i­tor Ser­vices at The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Art. She earned a Ph.D. from the Depart­ment of Arts and Human­i­ties, Teach­ers Col­lege, Colum­bia University.