Summary: Deborah Hicks grew up in a working-class family in rural North Carolina. In The Road Out: A Teacher’s Odyssey in Poor America, she weaves a narrative of growing up in Appalachia with her experiences as an educator trying to help a group of troubled girls in inner-city Cincinnati. Hicks works at Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute, and is the founding director of PAGE, an educational partnership supporting girls and young women in Appalachia.
