ANDOVER, Mass.—Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power will discuss “A Problem From Hell: American Foreign Policy in an Age of Terror” at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in Kemper Auditorium, Chapel Avenue, on the Phillips Academy campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Power is a lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her recent book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book on U.S. foreign policy.

Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Previously, she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe and The Economist. Co-editor of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact, she recently wrote a new introduction to Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism and is working on a book on the causes and consequences of historical amnesia in American foreign policy. Originally from Ireland, Power is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School

Her visit is sponsored by the academy’s Alfred E. Stearns Lectureship Fund. During the day, Power will meet with students involved in the academy’s Center for Global Justice and community service programs.

To learn more about Samantha Power's work, click here for the Web site of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.