Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, is the author of Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (Penguin Press, 2008), a biography of the UN peacemaker killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq. The founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002), she is also the author of "A Problem from Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide (Harper Collins, 2003), which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy. From 1993-1996, Power covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the Boston Globe, U.S. News and World Report and the New Republic. She has remained an active journalist, reporting from Rwanda, Burundi, Cambodia, Kosovo, East Timor, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. She is a contributor to the New Yorker magazine and a foreign policy columnist with Time magazine, and won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting for her New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan. She is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (St. Martin's, 2000). A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, Power moved to the United States from Ireland in 1979, at the age of nine. More of her work can bee seen at www.samanthapower.com.

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