Samantha Power

Samantha Power (born 1970) is a journalist, writer, and professor. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Power was raised in Ireland before emigrating to the United States in 1979. She attended Lakeside High School in Atlanta, GA. She was a member of the cross country team as well the basketball team. She is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. From 1993 to 1996, she covered the Yugoslav wars for U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Economist, and The New Republic.

She is a 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, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2003. She endorses the Genocide Intervention Network.

As of 2006, she was writing about foreign policy and 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 along with Jean-Sélim Kanaan, Nadia Younes, Fiona Watson, and other members of his staff, on the afternoon of August 19, 2003. The book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World will be released in February 2008.

She spent 2005-06 working in the office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama as a foreign policy fellow, where she was credited with sparking off and directing Obama's interest in the Darfur conflict[1]. She has also been involved with efforts to increase media attention about the Darfur conflict. In 2006, she contributed to "Screamers", a movie telling about Darfur, Armenian and other genocides of 20-21st centuries.

In 2004, Power was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 top scientists and thinkers of that year[2]. She appears in Charles Ferguson's 2007 documentary No End in Sight which alleges numerous missteps by the Bush administration in the U.S. war in Iraq.

Bibliography

• The Man for Dark Times: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (2007) ISBN 1-59420-128-5
• "The Void: Why the Movement Needs Help." New Republic May 15 2006.
• "Punishing Evildoers." Washington Post, April 23 2006.
• Abramowitz, Morton, and Power, Samantha. "Democrats: Get Loud, Get Angry!" Los Angeles Times, April 10 2006.
• "Missions." New Yorker November 28 2005.
• "Talk of the Town: Boltonism" New Yorker March 21, 2005.
• "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2003) ISBN 0-06-054164-4
• Realizing Human Rights : Moving from Inspiration to Impact (coeditor, 2000) ISBN 0-312-23494-5

External links

• Personal Homepage, from Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
• Recent Articles by Samantha Power
• Power's profile at Harvard.
• A League Of Her Own- Profile story from Men's Vogue
• Samantha Power discusses her book, A Problem from Hell, at the Carnegie Council.
• Interview on Sudan for guernicamag.com
• Interview at Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• Interview at IdentityTheory.com
• Samantha Power: Biography | PBS
• Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
• Reviews of "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
• Interview with Harry Kreisler on Conversations with History about "Genocide and U.S. Foreign Policy
• Speaking on human rights and U.S. foreign policy at the University of Chicago Feb 23, 2007.

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