Tyler Antonio Lynch is a political economist and doctoral student at York University. His research focuses on the political economy of land, extraction, and social movement mobilization in the Global South, with focus on Brazil. He earned his MPhil in Politics and International Studies with distinction from the University of Cambridge (2023), and attained a BA with high honours from the University of British Columbia (2021). His research is published or forthcoming in several journals, while his writing on Global South politics has been published in Jacobin and Compact. Beyond academia, he has worked in the humanitarian sector with a focus on refugees and forced migration.