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Biden Proposes Samantha Power for USAID Lead

Laura Scudder

   Samantha Power, nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to head the U.S.
   Agency for International Development, brings human rights and
   development experience to the role if confirmed.

   "As a journalist, activist, and diplomat, I've seen the world-changing
   impact of @USAID," Power offered in a tweet. "At this critical moment,
   I feel immensely fortunate to have the chance to serve again, working
   with the incredible USAID team to confront COVID-19, climate change,
   humanitarian crises, & more."

     As a journalist, activist, and diplomat, I've seen the
     world-changing impact of [1]@USAID. At this critical moment, I feel
     immensely fortunate to have the chance to serve again, working with
     the incredible USAID team to confront COVID-19, climate change,
     humanitarian crises, & more. [2]https://t.co/LP3NhBvkZj
     -- Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) [3]January 13, 2021

   Power would be responsible for the federal development agency that
   manages $27 billion in federal funding, 12 programs and more than
   13,000 employees. [4]USAID is one of the largest international
   development agencies in the world that aims to reduce poverty and
   strengthen democratic governance, according to its website. The
   organization's goal is to promote a path to self-reliance in other
   nations, it states.

   Power started her [5]professional career as a journalist after earning
   a bachelor's degree from Yale University in Connecticut in 1992,
   eventually writing for Time, The Atlantic and The New Yorker magazines.
   She began as a freelance reporter and covered the war in Bosnia for The
   New Republic. Power went on to report on conflict in other places such
   as East Timor and Sudan.

   Having seen poverty, lack of education and lack of leadership on the
   ground level, [6]she said in Vogue, she moved into human rights work.
   The Rwandan genocide of 1994 inspired her to write her first book.

   She is the founding executive director of the [7]Carr Center for Human
   Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. In
   addition, she is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global
   Leadership and Public Policy at the Kennedy School, and the William D.
   Zabel '61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School
   -- her alma mater.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/USAID?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   2. https://t.co/LP3NhBvkZj
   3. https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/1349363722041454597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   4. https://www.usaid.gov/
   5. https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-j-power/
   6. https://www.vogue.com/article/samantha-power-americas-ambassador-to-the-un
   7. https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/history-approach

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