Brooke Richardson is an Instructor and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Sociology at Brock University in Ontario, Canada and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Early Childhood Studies, Education, Sociology and Child and Youth departments at several universities in southwestern Ontario. Her research and scholarly work focus on the privatization of childcare in Canada, political representations of the childcare policy "problem," reconceptualizing and reasserting care in early childhood education, and re-imagining child protection systems through an ethics of care perspective.