Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw is professor of early childhood studies in the School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, where she is also the coordinator of the early years specialization. She currently holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant for her ethnographic study “Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education,” and works in collaboration with members of the Common Worlds Childhoods and Pedagogies Research Collective. Her current research revolves around the pedagogical possibilities of multispecies relations for early childhood.