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Samantha Power is The Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Ms. Power is a journalist, writer, professor and scholar of foreign policy especially as it relates to human rights, genocide and AIDS. Her book, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy.
Samantha’s New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting. She has written numerous articles about Darfur for The New Yorker,The New York Times,The Los Angeles Times, Time, and other magazines and newspapers, detailing the brutality in Darfur and the need to stop the aggression.
From 1993 to 1996, Samantha covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for U.S. News and World Report,The Boston Globe, The Economist and The New Republic. In 1996, she joined the International Crisis Group as a political analyst, helping launch the organization in Bosnia. Samantha was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Samantha is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She spent 2005-2006 working as a foreign policy fellow in the office of Senator Barack Obama.
Currently, she is writing about foreign policy and a political biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and United Nations Special Representative in Iraq who was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad on August 19, 2003.
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