About the Author

Elizabeth Farnsworth is a filmmaker, foreign correspondent, and former chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Her 2008 documentary, The Judge and the General, co-directed with Patricio Lanfranco, aired on television around the world winning many awards. She has reported on television and in print from Cambodia, Vietnam, Botswana, Chile, Peru, Haiti, Iraq, and Iran, among other places.

She grew up in Topeka, Kansas, where her ancestors were pioneers. She has a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.A. in history from Stanford University. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, attorney Charles E. Farnsworth. They have two married children and six grandchildren. She has received three Emmy nominations and is a recipient of the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, often considered the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer, also administered by Columbia University. In 1970 she helped produce (and acted in) Que Hacer, a feature film about the election of Salvador Allende in Chile. In 1983, she co-produced The Gospel and Guatemala with Steven Talbot. It aired on PBS in 1984. Thanh's War, which she co-produced with John Knoop, aired on PBS in 1991.

Farnsworth serves on the advisory board of the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, and the advisory committee of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

About the Photographer

Mark Serr is a commercial photographer living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in design related projects. He was born in California in 1967 and received a BFA from the Pasadena Art Center College of Design. He has photographed many of the most creatively innovative and successful products developed from the tech and design industry. That work has appeared in the The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, and Dwell, among other publications.