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SAMANTHA POWER
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Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral
Affairs
National Security Council
. Samantha Power most recently served as the Anna Lindh Professor of the
Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F.
Kennedy School of Government, where she taught courses on U.S. foreign
policy, human rights, and extremism and where she was the founding
Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She is
the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "A Problem from Hell: America and
the Age of Genocide" (2002) and "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieria de
Mello and the Fight to Save the World" (2008), the basis for the
award-winning HBO documentary "Sergio." Power has served as a columnist
at Time Magazine and, in her journalism, has reported from such places
as Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. Prior to
serving at the NSC, she contributed regularly to the New Yorker
Magazine, the New York Review of Books, and the New Republic. Power is
a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.
