Dr. Amy D'Amico, Division Director of Professional Services

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Dr. Amy D’Amico joined the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) in 2013 as the Division Director of Professional Services. She oversees Professional Development and Leadership Development initiatives at SSEC. Prior to joining SSEC, Dr. D’Amico was a member of the faculty in the Biology Department at Georgetown University. At Georgetown, she taught a variety of biology courses and co-directed the RISE & Teach program for biology undergraduates who complete a thesis while teaching in the DC Public Schools.

 

Dr. D’Amico has 21 years of experience as an educator that began by teaching middle school for the Cambridge Public Schools in Massachusetts. Dr. D’Amico quickly became a Middle Grade Science Teacher Leader and worked to implement the district’s five-year strategic plan based on the SSEC’s model of science education reform. While in Cambridge, she also worked on various educational and consulting projects with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. D’Amico earned her BA in Biology with a minor in Education for Certification from New York University and received an MS and a PhD in Biology from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

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