Amber Lyon is a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, filmmaker, photographer, and explorer known for her use of submersion journalism, or becoming part of the story, to find the truth. Lyon is the founder of the news site, www. Both the site and show cover the potential for extreme therapies and alternative medicines to cure anything from depression to cancer.
Lyon has traveled the world investigating natural cures, focusing on the ancient use of entheogens to treat and purge trauma. She ventured deep into the Amazon to study the Shipibo use of the psychoactive brew Ayahuasca, and studied medicinal mushroom use by native curanderas in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, Thailand and Indonesia.
Lyon and her crew were detained at gunpoint while reporting in Bahrain for the documentary, but were able to escape with their video unscathed. Lyon has reported extensively on domestic child sex trafficking. In , She investigated the sex trafficking of domestic minors on the online classified site, Craigslist.
Lyon was honored with a prestigious Gracie Award for women in media and a nominated as a finalist for a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. The hour-long documentary gave viewers a raw view into the disturbing world of underage American girls caught up in the violent sex trade.
Lyon is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, Peace, Love and Pepper Spray , a historic photographic documentation of protest across the United States. View fullsize. Amber Lyon.
