Dr. Dandy is a tenured Professor of Education and Director of Armstrong Atlantic State University's Pathways to Teaching Program, a collaborative grant that provides scholarships and support activities for paraprofessionals, substitute teachers and secretaries, primarily minority males, so that they can become certified teachers in urban environments. She holds degrees in elementary education/Spanish, language arts, and reading/linguistics from Millersville University, Temple University and the University of South Carolina. She has taught at the elementary, middle school and college levels and in inner city as well as suburban schools. On two separate occasions she has received the award of outstanding faculty at Armstrong Atlantic State University. She has lectured at universities in Canada, Ireland, Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly Russia), China, Hungary and Turkey.

In 1991, Dr. Dandy published Black Communications: Breaking Down the Barriers, designed to provide a positive view of the language and culture of African Americans, suggest activities for codeswitching from their dialect to the standard and encourage improved cross-cultural communications between teachers and students. This text is used in more than 50 school systems, universities and organizations, where Dr. Dandy has also provided consultant services and available in 400 libraries nationwide.

Dr. Dandy is featured in a 30-minute television documentary entitled "The Drive to Teach," produced by the National Education Association and aired on the School Stories Series shown on The Learning Channel. The Pathways Program is winner of Harvard University's 1997 Innovations in American Government Award and the 1998 Georgia Regents Award for Teaching Excellence.

Dr. Dandy is married to Dr. J. Alphonso Dandy, an optometrist, and they are proud parents of twin sons, who are ophthalmologist and a daughter who teaches middle school Language Arts and serves as Computer Facilitator for her school. She is the Director of the Education and Information ministry and a Sunday School teacher at her church. She has established a scholarship at her church with 10% of the proceeds from her text.