Currey Hitchens is passionate about improving public education for every Georgia student. This means making the schools children are zoned for excellent schools. She worked at Georgia Legal Services and Atlanta Legal Aid fighting poverty in Georgia for over a decade, and she came to the conclusion that improving public education is the key to ending poverty. She had a great public education in Georgia through the Whitfield County School system herself.
Currey taught fourth and first grades in Atlanta area public schools and has a masters in children’s literature from UGA in addition to a law degree from Emory. In 2022 she ran for State School Superintendent to stand up for students and teachers against laws that would prevent students from learning about divisive topics and that would hurt transgender students as well as to fight for all public school students. Her campaign was not successful, but she took a stand and let LGBTQ youth and all marginalized youth know that someone loves them the way they are and will fight for them.
Currey opened a law firm, Hitchens Law, LLC, to fight for students and teachers. She believes all children can learn and that we must work against bigotry to make sure all children get what they need to stay in school and succeed no matter their background.
Currey takes special education, school discipline, and other education cases for students and cases for teachers terminated for discussing divisive but appropriate topics in schools. She would also love to take cases supporting librarians and teachers in the fight to keep books on shelves (the fight against book bans).
Some recommendations of banned books you should find and read to your children when age appropriate: Julian is a Mermaid, My Shadow is Purple, Flamer, GenderQueer, Right Where I Left You, Heartstopper, The Extraordinaries, All American Boys, The Color Purple, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Bluest Eye, Looking for Alaska, Monster, Sophie’s Choice and many more you can find on lists of the most challenged books.