Professor Adiele's specialty courses include What To Do With Your MFA; Creative Communities: Getting to Know/Write the Bay Area; Someone to Root For: Challenges in Characterization; Food Literature & Film; Documentary / Socially-Engaged Narrative; Digital Storytelling; Contemporary African Literature; and Coming of Age Around the World: Young Adult (YA) Lit & Film.

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Named as one of Marie Claire Magazine’s “5 Women to Learn From,” Faith has presented at documenta14, the Cannes Film Fest, and conferences and festivals around the world. She has been featured on Morning Edition (NPR); Chinese Global Network TV; the Huffington Post; a television pilot for a reality program; and The Tavis Smiley Show. Her media credits include a monthly column for Detour: Best Stories in Black Travel syndicated in The Miami Herald, art reviews for Hyperallergic, and writing for A World of Calm (HBO Max) and "sleep stories" for the meditation app, CALM. 

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The film My Journey Home (PBS) documents her international travels to find her family, further explored in three hybrid chapbooks: The Nigerian-Nordic Girl's Guide to Lady Problems and most recently, Her Voice: Hänen Äänensä: A Hybrid Memoir and Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies. Her memoir about becoming Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun, Meeting Faith (W.W. Norton), received the PEN Open Book Award for Memoir and is widely taught in American universities. She is co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology (The New Press). 

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Her honors include the Millennium Award from Creative Nonfiction and 25+ artist's residencies, including a UNESCO International Artists Bursary to Civitella Ranieri (Italy); Nawat Fes (Morocco); CourCommune (France); a Creative Nonfiction & Cultural Journalism Fellowship to Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada); Instituto Sacatar (Brazil); and Yaddo Corporation and MacDowell Colony (USA).

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She is the founder and host of African Book Club at the Museum of the African Diaspora and founder of VONA's Traveling While BIPOC. Before coming to CCA,  she served as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College.