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Elizabeth Farnsworth is a documentary filmmaker and former chief correspondent of the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Her documentary, The Judge and the General, co-produced with Patricio Lanfranco, was viewed around the world. As a reporter, she has covered crises in Cambodia, Vietnam, Botswana, Chile, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, and Israel, among other countries. Counterpoint Press published her memoir, A Train Through Time, in 2017. Farnsworth grew up in Topeka, Kansas, and graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College. She earned an M.A. in Latin American History from Stanford University. She has received three national Emmy nominations and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, often considered the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, which is also administered by Columbia University. Farnsworth serves on the advisory board of the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, retired attorney Charles E. Farnsworth. They have two married children and six grandchildren.