Awards & Winners

Samantha Power

Date of Birth 21-September-1970
Place of Birth Castleknock
(County Dublin, Fingal)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Journalist, Writer, Author, Diplomat, Teacher
Samantha Power is an Irish-born American academic, author and diplomat who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Samantha Power began her career by covering the Yugoslav Wars as a journalist. From 1998 to 2002 Power served as the Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she later served as the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy. She was a senior adviser to Senator Barack Obama until March 2008, when she resigned from his presidential campaign under controversy after she apologized for referring to then Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as “a monster.”. Power joined the Obama State Department transition team in late November 2008, and was named Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Council — responsible for running the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights — positions that she held from January 2009 to March 2013. In April 2012, Obama chose her to chair a newly formed Atrocities Prevention Board. During her time in office, Power’s office focused on such issues as the reform of the UN; the promotion of women's rights and LGBT rights; the promotion of religious freedom and the protection of religious minorities; the protection of refugees; the campaign against human trafficking; and the promotion of human rights and democracy, including in the Middle East and North Africa, Sudan, and Burma. She is considered to be a key figure within the Obama administration in persuading the president to intervene militarily in Libya.

Awards by Samantha Power

Check all the awards nominated and won by Samantha Power.

2003


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Honored for : A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction \"A Problem from Hell\": America and the Age of Genocide

2002


National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Honored for : A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction \"A Problem from Hell\": America and the Age of Genocide