简介

1993年到1996年她是一名报道南斯拉夫战争的记者。1998年到2002年她在哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院担任政策研究员。2008年3月以前是参议员奥巴马的高级顾问，后来成为奥巴马总统竞选团队的一员。

2008年11月她加入了奥巴马的政府团队中，担任奥巴马的特别助理和联合国安理会多边事务与的高级主管（2009年1月至2013年3月）。她的工作领域包括联合国改革、提高女性权利和LGBT权利、改善宗教自由和保护宗教弱势群体、保护难民与减少人道灾难、提倡在中东和北非普及和民主，她也是推动2011年军事干预利比亚战争的关键人物之一 。

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她已经出版了四本书，其中包括曾获2003年普利策奖、专门研究美国对种族灭绝外交政策的 A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 一书，该书介绍了美国对包括发生在1990年代卢旺达和波斯尼亚大在内的一些人道危机的胆怯反应 。

她最近表示联合国没能制止内战普遍存在的杀戮，“这种耻辱将受到历史的严厉评判”。

美国参议院外交委员会主席罗伯特·梅内德斯形容她是“一位不倦的捍卫者”，也是一位重要的外交政策思考者。

她丈夫 Cass Sunstein 也是一名哈佛大学法学教授和奥巴马政府的团队成员。

她亦曾随同联合国团队前往非洲、朝鲜等地。

著作

书籍

The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World (coeditor with Derek Chollet, 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 (coeditor, 2000) ISBN 0-312-23494-5

文章

"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.

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