Dr. Alison Gerlach is an Assistant Professor in the School of Child & Youth Care at the University of Victoria. Her program of research aims to explore and inform how the organization and provision of pediatric and early years programs and services can be equity-oriented; that is, how early years and disability services for children can be inclusive of and responsive to families whose lived experiences, including marginalization, racialization and discrimination. Her research draws on 25 years of providing occupational therapy with differently-abled children in diverse community and family contexts and in partnership with Indigenous colleagues, organizations and First Nations in British Columbia. Alison is committed to community-based participatory research that engages with communities, organizations, families and children as research partners.