Emily Hollyday is a science teacher dedicated to engaging students in interdisciplinary and authentic projects. As a founding teacher and team leader at an expeditionary learning school in New York City, she helped her students do research on oyster restoration, inspiring and supporting a student-group who wrote and lobbied for legislation on a tax credit that would incentivize mollusk shell recycling. Emily continues to develop and teach learning expeditions at King Middle School in Portland, Maine. During the spring of 2024, her students re-designed areas of Portland prone to coastal flooding and presented their work to local stakeholders at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Emily earned a BA from College of the Atlantic and a MA from Brooklyn College. During past summers, Emily has worked in a stem cell lab through Columbia University’s Summer Research Program for Teachers and has interned with NASA Langley Research Center.
