April Martin

April brings 25 years of community engagement work with families and young children; additionally, her background as a multi-disciplinary artist propels her to think with relational dialogues that unfold within Living Inquiry. She is committed to the significance of collective encounters with children and educators through aesthetic attunement with life’s rhythms, materials, land, and place, wherein, transformation and re-thinking educational spaces might take place.

Camilla Fusar Poli

Camilla was born and raised in northern Italy where she became familiar with the Reggio Emilia Philosophy in Early childhood education, which became her way of thinking and learning with children, combining the perspective of an educator with that of a researcher.

Chelbie Stephenson

Chelsea Hann

Living on the lands of the Lheidli T’enneh in Prince George, Chelsea has a decade of experience working with children and families. Bringing a passion for local knowledges and storytelling into her role, Chelsea’s work with centres currently spans a territory of 600km2, supporting five rural communities across Northern BC.

Gloria Albarracin

Born and raised in Honduras, Gloria has been in the early childhood field for 15 years. She is committed to social justice for humans and nonhumans.

Heather Van Harten

Heather has engaged in a variety of roles within early learning and school-age environments since 2012. She comes to her work considering how to care well while creating lives together and how to enact living and learning through relations with others and place. Thinking collectively with educators and children, she is committed to supporting conditions where other ways of doing, being and knowing can be imagined.

Janet Lacroix

Janet has been working in the field of early childhood education for three decades and holds an MEd in Early Childhood Education from the University of British Columbia. She brings a life-long passion for supporting the well-being of young children within a thriving world and her practice embraces ethical considerations of care and collective empowerment for the flourishment of all beings.

Karen Rodden

Karen (she/her) is an artist and early childhood educator occupying space on unceded W̱SÁNEĆ territory. She is committed to disrupting and reimagining colonial societal structures, ways of sharing knowledge, and being in relationship with the land.

Kirsten MacDougall Seiler

Kirsten is working with children and educators in centres situated on the unceded traditional territory of the Tsimshian people in Terrace, British Columbia. Deeply connected to pedagogies of place and grounded in a Common Worlds orientation, Kirsten brings a commitment to foster lively curriculum that moves beyond human-centric practices and ways of knowing-being that uphold a nature/human divide.

Lorna Grant

Lorna has lived, played and worked in Prince George, on the lands of the Lheili T’enneh First Nation, for 11 years. She embraces the joy and wonder of childhood and is looking forward to bringing enthusiasm and curiosity to her pedagogist work. Lorna is committed to fostering conditions for thinking deeply about pedagogies that activate curriculum for living well together.

Lu Jiang

Lu was born and raised in China, before moving to Vancouver in 2011. She is passionate about rethinking early childhood education and views educators, children, and families as co-researchers. She is committed to foster collaborative, reflective, and experimental practices that challenge dominant narratives and create transformative learning environments.

Maria Jeong

Maria focuses her work from feminist perspectives and is excited to collaborate with the educators, children, and the North Shore community.

Mary Songyi Kim

Mary has been living and working with families and young children in the Burnaby community for over ten years and is looking forward to engaging in multiple and contextual conversations as a pedagogist. She is pursuing a master’s degree in early childhood education at Western University.

Mateja Dolnicar

With deep gratitude for this land, Mateja has lived, worked and played in Vancouver for over a decade. In her work and relationships with children, families and communities, she imagines early childhood spaces as sites for the collective construction of knowledge where children and educators are valued and encouraged to be deep thinkers

Matilda Wong

Matilda is committed to create an inclusive, relational, and collaborative environment to reimagine early childhood education. She is excited to unfold other possibilities and perspectives with children, educators, and the community.

Rachel Phillips

Rachel’s 20 years of experience in the field of Early Childhood Education has evolved a theoretically grounded practice that aims to create conditions for inquiry-based learning in relational contexts. Rachel is looking forward to working with educators and children as an ECPN pedagogist in the Nanaimo area.

Shirley-Ann Royer

Shirley-Ann has worked in the field of early childhood education for over 30 years. Her diverse life experiences and background in visual arts combine in her commitment to shifting perspectives through aesthetic languages.

Teresa Smith

Teresa aims to cultivate collaborative relationships with educators, families, children and my pedagogist colleagues, to think otherwise about children and childcare, and co-build a community where all children can flourish.

Tracy Barkman

Tracy holds a deep commitment to disrupting colonial human-centric ways of thinking and being in the world. She works to co-create meaningful encounters within the places we inhabit that invite multiple understandings about being in the world. She lives with gratitude on the unceded təmxʷulaʔxʷ (territory) of the Sinixt people.