Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She spent 2005-06 working in the office of Senator Barack Obama.
Power, an award winning author, has written extensively on U.S. Foreign Policy and genocide. 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. She is currently writing a political biography of the UN's Sergio Vieira de Mello.
Power’s The New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting. From 1993-1996, she 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. Power is the editor, with Graham Allison, of “Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact.” Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002).
A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine.
