About Cynthia Davis-Vanloo (Edit profile)

Cynthia Davis-Vanloo has over 35 years of experience in early childhood education and related fields, including working with children and adults with disabilities in classroom and residential settings, early childhood education and center management, casework and counseling with children and families, parent education, American Sign Language interpreting, childcare regulation, and ECE training and coaching. She has served as part-time faculty in the early childhood education department at North Seattle College for nearly 10 years. Davis-Vanloo holds a doctorate in education with a concentration in curriculum, teaching, learning and leadership. Through her professional, educational, and personal experiences, she continues to develop as a critical social justice practitioner and educator through critical race lenses. As an educator she has opportunities to encourage other educators to think critically about how they participate in sustaining systems of racism and inequity, and how they might engage and nurture children's love of learning in ways that increase equitable opportunities that meet the needs of all children and families in education environments. This is a reciprocal process that helps her think critically, and reflect on and evolve her own critical learning and teaching pedagogy.