Having taught at a number of different institutions, Andrea Dickens currently teaches a wide variety of Writing Programs classes at ASU-Tempe, including ENG 101, 102, 107, 108, 301, 302 and WAC 107. She's particularly focused on working with students from diverse backgrounds and cultures in both first-year and advanced writing. Her current research focuses on thinking about sustainability of people and ways that contemplative pedagogies can be used in the composition classroom to foster deeper engagement that sustains a career. In her spare time she is a ceramic artist, poet, and spends time in creative fiber arts and volunteering at the Desert Botanical Garden.