Dr. Andrée Lotey holds a Ph.D in French Literature and teaches French language and literature at Université de Montréal.  As a professor at Université canadienne en France, she has organized art and literary tours in the Côte d’Azur and Provence regions of France. Thanks to a hidden suitcase, she discovered that her late father, Jacob Lotenberg, was saved by Aristides de Sousa Mendes.  She is currently writing a screenplay on this discovery, entitled The Green Suitcase.  Dr. Lotey is a former Board Member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and is a frequent speaker on the Sousa Mendes story.