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Apr 18, 2016 · UN ambassador Samantha Power's motorcade kills child in Cameroon | Cameroon | The Guardian. Samantha Power said she met with the boy’s family to ‘offer our profound condolences and our...
- How Did Faith Shape Your upbringing?
- How Did This Affect Your Career Path?
- In Your Memoir You Write About “Shrinking The Change.” What Does This Mean?
- Can You Explain The Title of Your Memoir, The Education of An Idealist?
- Has Your Sense of Idealism Changed Over The years?
- How Does Idealism Intersect with Your Faith?
Both my parents are from Ireland. I lived in Ireland until I was 9 years old and went to a Catholic school. In that structure I was not only grounded in the beginnings of my moral education and Catholic teaching, but I also developed habits of expressing my faith outside of formal structures that are still with me today and that I practice with my ...
All I wanted to be when I was in high school was a sports journalist. That was the track that I was headed on, irrespective of my views about equality or human rights. I loved sports and that was my mission. One summer during college, I was back in Georgia working in the sports department of the local CBS affiliate, and I just happened to be in the...
I borrowed the idea of “shrink the change” from a book called Switch(Broadway Books) by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Their point is that you can just feel so small, especially during a time when we have, for example, more displaced people in the world than at any time since World War II and when our planet is warming in a manner that’s outpacing our a...
I think people expected me to tell a tale that I started all starry-eyed and thought I could change the world, but the world is nasty, brutish, and short. What I really came to zero in on, particularly as I wound down my time in the government, was this idea that you can’t change the world just like that, but you can change individual worlds. There...
I’m still an idealist. I don’t believe that giving up on fighting injustice is an option. I’m very realistic about the odds, depending on what I’m advocating for or trying to get done on a given day. I’m not somebody who thinks that we just snap our fingers and change comes to our world. But to give up on improving the planet would be not only wron...
If you are active in the fields of human rights or humanitarian work, there is an awful lot of pain out there. You can have some difficult days wondering whether the effort you’re making is enough or whether the deep structural forces out there that make improving things so hard are just bigger than you. My faith doesn’t give me an optimism that th...
Apr 18, 2016 · MAROUA, Cameroon - U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power's trip to Cameroon's front lines in the war against Boko Haram started horrifically Monday as an armored jeep in her motorcade struck and...
Feb 15, 2020 · In her book, Power argued that throughout the twentieth century, from Ottoman Turkey in 1915 to Rwanda in 1994, the United States had failed, time and again, to prevent genocide. But this was not ...
Mar 4, 2024 · A former attorney and member of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, she has helped women escape violence and visually impaired children attend school. Today, she continues to fight for the future of Afghanistan – one that respects human rights and human dignity.
Sep 5, 2019 · The kids are Declan, 10, and Rian, 7, both born while she worked at the White House. Power, 48, admits to bingeing on whatever time she can get with her children now, having been absent from...
Apr 19, 2016 · A vehicle in the motorcade of the United States' ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power killed a seven-year-old boy in northern Cameroon on Monday. The child rushed into the road in...
