During Winter Quarter 2009, Helle Rytkønen taught "Humor, Race, Class, and Gender" at Hope House, a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Redwood City, California. Her class is part of a program offered by Stanford's Ethics in Society Program. The program, now in its eighth year, gives residents a chance to participate in a range of classes designed to help them become productive citizens.  Teaching a class of female residents, all recovering addicts, many with criminal records, Rytkønen explored how humor can be used to cope with difficulty and how we use humor to engage with challenging issues of race, class, and gender. Using her Stanford PWR 1 class on the same topic as a guide to teaching at Hope House, Rytkønen uses her Hope House class to reflect on her teaching at Stanford. More specifically, she is studying how the radically different cultural contexts of each community produce different interpretive responses to the same texts. Rytkønen delivered a conference paper on her work at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco in March, 2009. She will also be teaching again at the Hope House in Winter, 2010.