Alisha Thomas Searcy is the Southern Region President Democrats for Education Reform and cohost of Pioneer’s podcast, The Learning Curve.  She was the 2022 Democratic nominee for Georgia state school superintendent. She is a former six-term state legislator in Georgia. Alisha was co-author of the state’s constitutional amendment to create a state charter authorizer, and author of the state’s intra-district transfer law. She is former Superintendent of Ivy Prep Schools in Atlanta.