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Currie is an award-winning freelance journalist, editor, writer, and researcher whose work focuses on gender, health, and culture, and the intersection of those three subjects.

 

She most recently worked for Women's Health magazine as their news & features editor. While there, she commissioned and edited a Webby Award winning feature (2025) on controversy surrounding women’s Olympic uniforms that won People’s Voice Award for "Best Writing (Editorial)."

 

Currie also worked as a local reporter for Hearst Connecticut Media Group at The Danbury News-Times during the COVID-19 pandemic, where she covered general assignment and health news. Her reporting there won several regional awards, including Health coverage (1st place), COVID investigative reporting (2nd place), COVID news (2nd place), Government reporting (3rd place). Her investigative series into the dissolution of a weight loss camp for kids, Camp Shane, was featured in the "Camp Shame" iHeartRadio podcast which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2025.

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Currie's work has appeared in TIMEThe Houston ChronicleRapplerNYCity LensThe Brooklyn InkThe Daily Princetonian and Bookclique, among other publications. She has additional editorial experience through prestigious internships at Harper's Magazine, TIME Magazine, and Simon & Schuster's Gallery imprint. Currie’s work as a freelance fact-checker for TIME involved data-heavy, feature articles that received several Deadline Club awards.​

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When she's not working, Currie is usually out on a run around her favorite park, reading the latest historical fiction bestseller, or traveling with her family.

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She is an alumna of Princeton University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in London with her husband.

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