“Easing punitive measures ... will only embolden Russia,”
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Samantha Power
Samantha Jane Power is an Irish-American journalist, diplomat, and government official who served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Power later served as the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 2021 to 2025.
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culture · American academic, author, and diplomat (born 1970) · journalist · diplomat · pedagogue · writer · human rights defender · political activist · university teacher · jurist · politician · also Samantha Power, Samantha Jane Power, Power
Born 21 September 1970 · Q454970
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 3,422 Wikipedia readers in one day, 11.5× the usual 298, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 3 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Former USAID Administrator Samantha Power’s net worth “skyrocketed” from $6.7 million to $30 million in three years.” False.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “"EX-USAID CHIEF SAMANTHA POWER’S NET WORTH SKYROCKETS—FROM $6.7M TO $30M ON A $180K SALARY"” No Evidence.
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Power started teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School
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2019· 3 entries
Won: Her book "A Problem from Hell" (2019).
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Presented the commencement address at Indiana University, where she received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (D
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Was selected as the recipient of the 2019 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize by the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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2017· 2 entries
Won: Her book "A Problem from Hell" (November 2017).
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The House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed Power's testimony and relevant records as part of its investigation into the unmasking of Americans whose conversations she obtained from intelligence surveillance
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2016· 4 entries
Won: Her book "A Problem from Hell" (2016).
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While speaking on the situation in Syria, Power said, "What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it is barbarism," "Instead of pursuing peace, Russia and Assad make war
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“What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it is barbarism,”
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Was listed as the 41st-most powerful woman in the world by Forbes
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2015· 1 entry
Won: Her book "A Problem from Hell" (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Speaking on the crisis in Ukraine, Ambassador Power, told reporters that Washington was "gravely disturbed" by reports of Russian military deployments into the Crimea
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2013· 4 entries
Power told a news conference that the American intelligence findings "overwhelmingly point to one stark conclusion: The Assad regime perpetrated an attack
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By a vote of 87 to 10, and was sworn in a day later by the Vice President
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“overwhelmingly point to one stark conclusion: The Assad regime perpetrated an attack.”
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Career landmark: United States Ambassador to the United Nations (2013–2017).
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2012· 3 entries
Gave birth to their second child, a daughter
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Career landmark: childbirth.
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Published “Spurious but systematic correlations in functional connectivity MRI networks arise from subject motion” in NeuroImage — cited 7,319 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2011).
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2009· 3 entries
Gave birth to their first child, a son
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Right after her failure to change Obama's decision as "an example of loneliness" she experienced at the White House
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President Obama appointed her to a position on the National Security Council and in 2013 he appointed her as U
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2008· 3 entries
Power married law professor Cass Sunstein, whom she met while working on the Obama campaign
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Saying, "can I just clarify and say, I don't think Hillary Clinton is a monster
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Career landmark: marriage.
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2007· 1 entry
“Conventional Washington versus the Change We Need”
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2004).
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Power was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world that year
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2003· 5 entries
Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (2003).
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Won: Her book "A Problem from Hell" (2003).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2003).
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Awarded J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2003).
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For her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, a study of the U
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction for A Problem from Hell (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Was criticized for descending into "a festival of Israel bashing
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1998· 1 entry
Became the Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, where she later served as the first Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy
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1979· 1 entry
Career landmark: immigration to the United States.
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1970· 1 entry
Born 1970-09-21.
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1967· 2 entries
Undermines Israel's security, harms the viability of a negotiated two-state outcome, and erodes prospects for peace and stability in the region
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“Israeli settlement activity in territories occupied in 1967 undermines Israel”
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1945· 1 entry
Precisely to deal with threats of this nature did not work as it was supposed to
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