John Lindsay-Poland shi ne marubuci, mai taimakawa, mai bincike da kuma mai nazari akan mayar da hankali kan hakkokin bil'adama da kuma rushewa, musamman a Amurka. Ya rubuta game da, bincike da kuma shirya aiki don kare hakkin bil'adama da kuma rushewar tsarin Amurka a Latin Amurka don 30 shekaru. Daga 1989 zuwa 2014, ya yi hidima a kungiyar tarayya ta tarayya ta sulhu (FOR), a matsayin jagoran kungiyar tsaro a Latin America da Caribbean, a matsayin mai gudanar da bincike, kuma ya kafa kungiyar AU ta Colombia. Daga 2003 zuwa 2014, ya shirya wata wasiƙun wata wata da aka mayar da hankali kan tsarin siyasar Colombia da Amurka, Latin America Update. Ya halarci 2012 US-Mexico Caravan don Zaman Lafiya, kuma ya ziyarci Ciudad Juarez sau huɗu a matsayin ɓangare na aikin FOR don magance fataucin bindiga da kuma rawar da Amurka ke takawa a cikin tashin hankali a Mexico. A baya ya yi aiki tare da Peace Brigades International (PBI) a Guatemala da El Salvador, kuma ya haɗu da PBI's Colombia Project a 1994. Yana zaune tare da abokin aikin sa, mai zane James Groleau, a Oakland, California. Yankunan da aka mayar da hankali: Latin Amurka (musamman Colombia da Mexico); Manufofin Amurka a Latin Amurka; 'yancin ɗan adam; bindigar gun; yan bindigar 'yan sanda.
