2008 - 2009 PARTICIPANTS |
 | Samantha Power Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Military Power Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was the founding Executive Director. She is the author, most recently, of Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World, a biography of the UN envoy killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2003. Her book "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, 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. In 2007, Power became a foreign policy columnist at Time magazine. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and The New Republic. She remains a working journalist, contributing to the Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Power is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. From 2005 to 2006, she worked for the office of Senator Barack Obama as a foreign policy fellow, and from 2007 to 2008, she served as a senior advisor to the senator's presidential campaign. |
