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Samantha Power (Ireland)
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Samantha Power was born in London and raised in Ireland, and came to the U.S. at age nine. She received her B.A degree from Yale College in 1992 and her J.D. Degree from Harvard Law School. She is a well-known diplomat, author, and journalist, and is currently on the faculty at Harvard University.
Power’s career spans many roles including a war correspondent in former Yugoslavia, a faculty member at Harvard, and a senior adviser to then-Senator Barack Obama. She became a special assistant to President Obama and served as a Director of Human Rights in the National Security Council.
Appointed as a U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 2013, Power worked on U.N. reforms, women’s/LGBT/human rights and on refugees. Listed as one of the powerful/influential woman by Forbes/Time magazine, and a winner of the 2016 Henry Kissinger Prize amongst other prestigious prizes, she was also featured in the documentary Watchers of the Sky, for her contribution to preventing genocide. She has authored many books and won a Pulitzer prize for her first book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.