Re/Thinking Stories: Lively Storytelling in ECE

Presenter Bios

Ali Morrow graduated from Capilano University’s Early Childhood Care & Education degree program and is now an educator in an outdoor classroom which was intentionally cultivated on campus. She is born and raised on the west coast, specifically growing up on the traditional, unceded, ancestral territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the x-ma@kwayam (Musqueam), Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish), and Satilwatar/Selllwituth (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Ali is devoted to thinking deeply about inclusive spaces, and also holds a passion for attending to (un)common, contextual lifeworlds through heart-felt-sensing, and experimenting with(in) language and reflective textual interpretations.

Veronica Ibanez is a mother, an educator, and an alumnus of Capilano University's Early Childhood Care & Education. Degree program: She has become deeply inspired by place-conscious pedagogies and artistic practices and works at Rosedale Playschool in Calgary. She also finds inspiration in designing environments that provoke curiosity and wonder, and in her free time, she enjoys creating children's stories. Veronica feels blessed to have met so many children during her 18 years of experience as an early childhood educator who taught her to see a new world through their eyes.