| Samantha Power  Born: 21-Sep-1970
Birthplace: Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A Problem From Hell Having emigrated to the United States in 1979, Power is Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. After serving in the 1990s as a reporter in Bosnia, her Pulitzer Prize-winning work A Problem From Hell tracks genocide in the 20th Century starting with the Turkish annihilation of the Armenians. Occasionally appearing as a talking head on such programs as Bill Moyers Now, she currently resides in Winthrop, MA. Father: Jim Power (d., cirrhosis)
Mother: (physician)
Boyfriend: Cass Sunstein (constitutional scholar, together since 2008)
High School: Lakeside High School, Atlanta, GA
University: Yale University (1992)
Law School: Harvard Law School (1999)
Professor: John F. Kennedy School of Government
Time foreign policy columnist (2007)
US News and World Report Reporter (1993-96)
The Economist Reporter in Yugoslavia (1993-96)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
International Crisis Group 1996
International Rescue Committee Board of Directors
Obama for America
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction 2003 for A Problem from Hell
Irish Ancestry
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Mischief Night (3-Nov-2006)
American Zeitgeist (16-Jun-2006) · Herself
The Low Down (6-Aug-2000)
Official Website:
http://samanthapower.blogspot.com/
Author of books:
"A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2002, international affairs)
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World (2008, biography)
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