From Chicago Tribune:
Senator hires genocide expert
Jill Zuckman,
Washington Bureau
Published July 20, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama has snared a high-profile human-rights activist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and lecturer from Harvard to join his Senate staff, advising him on issues of genocide and the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Samantha Power, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," is expected to become a foreign policy adviser to the Illinois Democrat, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"She has terrific expertise, like Darfur," Obama said. "It's a mutual interest on her part and my part."
Obama said that he and Power are still discussing when she would join his staff but that they had struck an agreement in principle. Power is a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. From 1993 to 1996, she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia for U.S. News & World Report, the Economist and the Boston Globe.
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