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Will Parnell, EdD, is Professor of early childhood education and curriculum and instruction and Pedagogical Liaison to Helen Gordon Center at Portland State University (PSU). He is in his 18th year administering his 5th multi-million-dollar U.S. Federal CCAMPIS Grants at PSU. He served as Department Chair of Curriculum and Instruction at PSU for many years and as the President of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators, where he is currently the Foundation President. He also served as Chair of the AERA Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education SIG. His most recent research problematizes ecology in early childhood – Plastics, Birds, and Humans: Awakening and Quickening Ecological Minds in Young Children and Their Teachers. (https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs202219641).

Angela Molloy Murphy, EdD, was an early childhood educator of 25 years with an independent early childhood program when she joined the University of Melbourne as an early childhood lecturer. Her post-qualitative doctoral dissertation, Animal Magic, Secret Spells, and Green Power: More-Than-Human Assemblages of Children’s Storytelling, is a critical post humanist, feminist new materialist study of the collective narrative processes of children, place and the more-than-human.

Elizabeth Quintero has focused on collaborating in communities with migrating families. After receiving her EdD at New Mexico State University, she designed and implemented programs at UMD and NYU. She was Chair of Early Childhood Studies at CSU Channel Islands. Her 2021 book is, Making Space for Storied Leadership in Higher Education: Learning with Migrant and Refugee Populations in Early Childhood and Teacher Education Contexts.

Larisa Callaway-Cole, EdD, is Assistant Professor of Child Development at Cal Poly Humboldt. Prior, Larisa spent several years teaching in early childhood and higher education contexts. Larisa’s research focuses on the dynamic counternarratives of minoritized children, families and educators, specifically regarding the power of storying diverse knowledges and perspectives of care and relationships in early childhood.