Ambassador Samantha Power | Education of an Idealist
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Samantha Power served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as well as a member of President Obama’s cabinet. In this role, Power became the public face of U.S. opposition to Russian aggression in Ukraine and Syria, negotiated sanctions against North Korea, lobbied to secure the release of political prisoners, helped introduce laws to cripple terrorist finance networks, and supported President Obama’s actions to end the Ebola crisis. Called by Forbes “a powerful crusader for U.S foreign policy as well as human rights and democracy” when it named her one of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women,” Power has also been named one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” and one of Foreign Policy’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers. She immigrated to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. Her new book is The Education of an Idealist.
You can find Ambassador Samantha Power at: Instagram | Website | Twitter
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| 0:00.0 | My guess today is former US ambassador to the United Nations and professor at Harvard's |
| 0:11.5 | Kennedy School and Law School Samantha Power. Forbes has called her a powerful crusader for |
| 0:17.9 | human rights and democracy, one of the world's 100 most powerful women, time named her among |
| 0:23.6 | the 100 most influential people, and one of foreign policies top 100 global thinkers. |
| 0:29.0 | Power has also served on the National Security Council as a special assistant to the president |
| 0:34.8 | and senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights, where she really focused on issues |
| 0:39.8 | including atrocity prevention, new and reform, LGBTQ plus and women's rights, the promotion of |
| 0:46.5 | religious freedom, the protection of religious minorities, and the prevention of human trafficking. |
| 0:52.2 | Interestingly, she was actually born and spent her early life in Ireland before immigrating with |
| 0:58.4 | her mom first to Pittsburgh and then Atlanta, and then beginning her career as a journalist, |
| 1:04.0 | which she thought would start out in sports, ended up actually reporting as a war or conflict |
| 1:09.8 | journalist reporting from places like Bosnia, East to Moore, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, Zimbabwe. |
| 1:15.6 | In her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist, she gets really personal, sharing so many of the |
| 1:22.7 | moments, the stories to big wins, equally bigger challenges and failures that have brought her to |
| 1:29.2 | this place in her career and in her life, and we dive into many of those moments in today's |
| 1:34.5 | conversation. It's so excited to share it with you. I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:41.6 | We're hanging out in New York right now, and there's so much I want to circle around to |
| 1:54.7 | in the last 10 years or so, but let's take a big leap back in time. Actually, I have a really big |
| 1:59.6 | curiosity. We're having this conversation shortly after your latest book is out. It's a memoir. |
| 2:07.1 | You've written books before, not like this, though. It's fascinating because |
| 2:12.6 | objectively looking at the career that you've had to date, there is ample opportunity for you to |
| 2:18.1 | write a book, which basically says, this memorializes my dent in the universe. You kind of chose to |
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