Mary Ellen Lewis is a Ph. D. candidate in the Environmental Psychology program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research interests include participatory environmental education, urban schoolyard greening, narrative inquiry, discourse theory and the implications of "subjectivity" in qualitative research. Her field research study, entitled "A teacher's schoolyard tale: Illuminating the vagaries of practicing participatory action research (PAR) pedagogy" appears in Vol. 10, No. 1, in the February 2004 issue of Environmental Education Research. Mary Ellen's dissertation case study of Project Grow explores the practice of participatory action research (PAR) pedagogy through teachers' narratives. Project Grow (www.projectgrow.org) is a 10 year old interdisciplinary environmental education project at City-As-School, a New York City alternative public high school. In collaboration with a team of school and community-based educators, Mary Ellen helped to establish Project Grow at CAS during her long career as a teacher and school social worker with the NYC Department of Education. She and her Project Grow Consultants partner, Gail Rothenberg, continue a hands-on practice of facilitating participatory urban schoolyard greening projects. PGC's most recent project is a school garden shared by elementary and high school students at Monroe Campus School in NYC's South Bronx.