Jacob Lyng is an independent journalist whose body of work has focused on the affect of mining on indigenous communities and the environment in Latin America.  His fourthcoming book investigates the militarization of the Maya Zone on the Yucatán peninsula during the Mexican Drug War and construction of the Maya Train.

He has worked as an editor for Intercontinental Cry, the human rights publication for the Center of World Indigenous Studies on articles such as a tuberculosis outbreak in the U’wa indigenous commuities fighting against petroleum exploitation on the Colombia-Venezuela border.  He is also on the board of the Esperanza Project, a bi-lingual English and Spanish magazine that covers environmental journalism in the Americas.  There he published his analysis on the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the U.S.-Mexico border during the migration crisis.