Teddi Ann Galligan

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Teddi Ann Galligan has shared her knowledge of and enthusiasm for the natural sciences in a wide variety of settings, from high school classrooms to museum programs to open-air community science lessons in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Ms. Galligan earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada and her M.A. in Liberal Education at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Annapolis, Maryland. She recently completed a graduate certificate in Water Resource Management at the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability, and Environmental Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia.

Ms. Galligan tutors private students in chemistry, physics, and environmental science. She has designed an honors chemistry home school program and contributes to a safe drinking water curriculum for a fellowship program at universities in East Africa. In addition, she consulted at the Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences throughout its 13 year history. At the museum, she led groups in structured educational programs connecting real world choices with the science behind topics such as global warming, community resilience, brain health and cognitive development, infectious diseases, and DNA technologies. 

Ms. Galligan’s laboratory experience includes wastewater analysis for a sustainable sanitation digestion technology, water quality analysis and clinical laboratory work in the developing world as well as research and fabrication of high pressure fuel cell systems, and synthesis of biodegradable thermoplastic polymers.

Having had the opportunity to live, study or work in Brazil, Guatemala, Haiti, and Ireland, Ms. Galligan brings a deep appreciation of different cultures to her science education work. She engages her students to see both the possibilities and responsibilities involved in practicing science for the sake of humanity and for our environment. Ms. Galligan is particularly interested in scientific and science education endeavors that address social injustice.

Ms. Galligan speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and French. Her office is located in Washington, D.C.