Andrea's PhD research in Language and Literacy Education employed arts-based research methods to explore the craft of speculative comics as a primary way of understanding and examining young people’s ideas and attitudes about the present/future. Enriched through interdisciplinary scholarship reaching across the fields of creative writing, literacy education, media, and visual arts her work continues to integrate community empowerment, autoethnography, and participatory practices within the creation of graphic narratives. Andrea is a Public Scholar at the University of British Columbia.