Lisa Damian-Marvin is a physics teacher at Candem Hills Regional High School, in FiveTowns CSD school district, Maine. B.A. (Chemistry) Boston University, M.S. (Chemistry) Carnegie Mellon University, M.A. (Gifted and Talented Education) Northcentral University. In addition to teaching physics, chemistry, engineering, and forensics, Mrs. Damian-Marvin was a founding director of the Midcoast Academy for New and In-Service Educators, a program that trained and supported conditionally certified K-12 teachers throughout the mid-coast Maine region. She also worked with the American Geologic Association as a curriculum developer for a national environmental education program. Mrs. Damian-Marvin is a National Board Certified Teacher, was awarded the 1999 Presidential Award for Excellence in Secondary Science Teaching, was a 2001 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow Finalist, and won the 2011 Yale-Lynn Hall Teacher Action Research Prize.