Lygia Navarro

Biography

Lygia Navarro has reported from Mexico, Cuba, Chile, and Argentina for the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as PBS’s Frontline/World and NPR’s Marketplace and Latino USA. She is currently a fellow at the Phillips Foundation and in 2008 was a recipient of a Middlebury College Fellowship in Environmental Journalism.

See Work

REPORTING / Fall 2009

Inheritance of Dust

By Lygia Navarro ,  Photography by Jason Florio

After his two years of schooling, Eduardo took up the destiny ordained to the people of Pocoboch: growing yucca, squash, tomatoes, chiles, beans, and corn on small plots carved into the jungle. There may not have been much money, but for...
REPORTING / Winter 2009

Tropical Depression

By Lygia Navarro ,  Photography by Jason Florio