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 Gabriell
DeBear Paye grew up in New York City. She earned a BS
in Environmental Horticulture with a minor in Botany in
1983 and an M.A. in education in 1984 from the University
of Connecticut. From 1985 to 1987 she served as a Peace
Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa where she taught
biology and agriculture and learned firsthand about tropical
agriculture and ecology. In 1987 she came to Boston to teach
Biology and Horticulture at West
Roxbury High School. Following an Earthwatch
trip to Mexico in 1994 to work with ethnobotanist Bruce
Benz, she began writing and testing ethnobotanical activities
in her classroom. In 1994 she launched an ethnobotanical
website for teachers on the EnviroNet network and in 1996
she was selected an Access
Excellence Fellow with Genentech. She received a Global
Teachnet Award from the National
Peace Corps Association in 1997 for her ethnobotanical
curriculum materials. In 1999 she was awarded a Pioneer
Grant with MetroLinc and a Teachnet Grant through Impact
II for her botanical curriculum materials. She is a lead
teacher in the Boston
Public Schools, and is the mother to her daughter, Amity.
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