In her spring 2026 OHR article, “Documenting a Movement Ecosystem: Picture the Homeless, a Participatory Oral History Research Case Study,” Lynn Lewis discusses the relationships between participatory action research (PAR), community organizing, and oral history. In her Author Interview with OHR Editor Holly Werner-Thomas, she elaborates on the necessarily experimental nature of PAR and why it felt urgent to interview PTH members beginning ten years ago. She also discusses her childhood on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, and what led her to activism, to Nicaragua, and finally to New York City and her work with Picture the Homeless.