Samantha Power

Samantha Power is a member of President Obama’s Cabinet and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. As a journalist and author, with a focus on U.S. intervention in genocide and war, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Power previously served as special assistant to the president and senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights at the National Security Council, as well as the head of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Updated 2014