Samantha Power

Samantha Power is a Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. 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. Power’s New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan, won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She is currently writing a political biography of the UN’s Sergio Vieira de Mello, while working as a foreign policy fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama.