Charles Lyons

Charles Lyons is a producer, director, writer, video editor, and content creator with deep background in reporting on and making content related to the environment, human rights, and culture.

Lyons has contributed articles to The New York Times and produced, written, and edited documentary shorts for the UN in Brazil, India, and Japan; served as executive producer at an environmental non-profit, producing a series with PBS NewsHour; worked as a freelance writer/producer for ABC News; and as a staff reporter for Variety.

Lyons holds a doctorate in film and theater from Columbia University and is the author of the book, The New Censors: Movies and the Culture Wars. He has taught classes at Yale, UCLA, Columbia, and SCAD-Atlanta.