Douglas Hodum

Douglas Hodum

Fellowship Placement: U.S. House of Representatives
Hometown: Farmington, ME

Doug has been a teacher for more than 25 years, working primarily at the high school level. He began his career as a long-term middle school special education substitute and then as an earth science teacher and transitioned to biology more than a decade ago. During his tenure, he served locally as the high school science department coordinator for seven years and as a local union leader for more than twenty years. For the past three years, Doug has served as a substitute administrator throughout his district. At the state level, he has served on the state science item review committee multiple times, the Maine Science Standards Steering Committee, a member of the Maine Governor’s Academy, and on the board of the Maine Science Teachers Association (vice president, president and parliamentarian). Nationally, Doug was a Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow and an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow as well as the District II Director for the National Science Teaching Association. He holds an MS in ecology and environmental science from the University of Maine and a BA from Grinnell College.