Samantha Power

Samantha Jane Power (sündinud 21. septembril 1970 Castleknockis Iirimaal) on ameerika ajakirjanik, poliitik ja diplomaat.

Samantha Power
Sünniaeg	21. september 1970 (54-aastane) Castleknock, Iirimaa
Rahvus	iirlane
Partei	demokraadid
Religioon	katoliiklane
Alma mater	Yale University Harvard Law School
Abikaasa	Cass Sunstein (2008)
Lapsed	Declan (sünd 2009) Rían (sünd 2012)

Power on lõpetanud Yale'i Ülikooli ja Harvardi ülikooli õigusteaduskonna. Tema teos "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" pälvis üldiste mitteilukirjanduslike teoste kategoorias 2003. aastal Pulitzeri preemia.

Alates 2013. aasta 2. augustist kuni 2017. aasta 20. jaanuarini oli Samantha Power Ameerika Ühendriikide suursaadik Ühinenud Rahvaste Organisatsiooni juures.^[1]

Forbesi maailma 100 mõjukaima naise loendis oli ta 2014. aastal 63. kohal, 2015. aastal 49. kohal.^[2]

Elu- ja töökäik

Power sündis ja kasvas kuni üheksanda eluaastani Iirimaal,^[3] kust emigreerus koos vanematega 1979. aastal Ameerika Ühendriikidesse Pittsburghi.^[4]

Aastatel 1993–1996 kajastas ta ajakirjanikuna Jugoslaavia sõja sündmusi väljaannetes U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Economist ja The New Republic.

Power oli kuni 2008. aastani senaator Barack Obama vanemnõunik. 2008. aasta märtsis loobus ta osalemisest Obama valimiskampaanias pärast seda, kui oli vabandust palunud sel ajal senaatoriks olnud Hillary Diane Rodham Clintoni koletiseks (“a monster”) nimetamise eest.^[5]

Teosed

Raamatud

• The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World (kaastoimetaja koos Derek Cholletiga, 2011) ISBN 1610390784
• Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (2008) ISBN 1-59420-128-5
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002) ISBN 0-06-054164-4
• Realizing Human Rights : Moving from Inspiration to Impact (kaastoimetaja, 2000) ISBN 0-312-23494-5

Artiklid

• "The Enforcer: A Christian Lawyer's Global Crusade," The New Yorker, January 19, 2009
• "Is Humanitarian Intervention Dead?" Slate, September 29, 2008.
• "For Terrorists, a War on Aid Groups," The New York Times, August 19, 2008.
• "The Democrats and National Security," The New York Review of Books, August 14, 2008.
• "Saving Zimbabwe," Time, July 3, 2008.
• "Rethinking Iran," Time Magazine, January 17, 2008.
• "Access Denied," Time Magazine, September 27, 2007.
• "The Void: Why the Movement Needs Help," New Republic, May 15, 2006.
• "Punishing Evildoers," Washington Post, April 23, 2006.
• Abramowitz, Morton, and Power, Samantha. "Democrats: Get Loud, Get Angry" The Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2006.
• "Missions," New Yorker, November 28, 2005.
• "Talk of the Town: Boltonism," New Yorker, March 21, 2005.
• "It's Not Enough to Call It Genocide," Time, October 4, 2004.
• "Abramowitz, Morton, and Power, Samantha. "A Broken System," The Washington Post, September 13, 2004.
• "A Reporter at Large: Dying in Darfur," New Yorker, August 30, 2004.
• "Break Through to Darfur," By John Prendergast and Samantha Power, The Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2004.
• "The Lesson of Hannah Arendt," The New York Review of Books, April 29, 2004.
• "Remember Rwanda, but Take Action in Sudan," The New York Times, April 6, 2004.
• "Unpunishable," The New Republic, January 12, 2004.
• "How To Kill A Country," Atlantic Monthly, December, 2003.
• "The AIDS Rebel," The New Yorker, May 19, 2003.
• "Robbing the Dead," The New York Times, February 23, 2003.
• "Rwanda: The Two Faces of Justice," The New York Review of Books, January 16, 2003.
• "First, Do No Harm," The Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2002.
• "Bystanders to Mass Murder," The Washington Post, April 21, 2002.
• "Genocide and America," The New York Review of Books, March 24, 2002.
• "Witness to Horrors," The Washington Post, February 10, 2002.
• "Bystanders to Genocide," Atlantic Monthly, September, 2001.

Valge Maja blogid

• "U.S. Leadership to Advance Equality for LGBT People Abroad," December 13, 2012.
• "Supporting Human Rights in Burma," November 9, 2012.
• "President Obama Directs New Atrocity Prevention Measures," August 6, 2011.
• "Announcing HumanRights.gov," April 11, 2011.
• "Transparency Gone Global," March 22, 2011.
• "A U.S.-India Partnership on Open Government," November 7, 2010.
• "A Landmark Achievement for Human Rights: The Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association," September 30, 2010.
• "President Obama Meets the Peacekeepers," September 24, 2009.