The Education of an Idealist

10/25/19 - What does it take to live your ideals? We discuss growing up and trying to make a positive change in the world with former UN Ambassador Samantha Power.

Amina reveals that at the end of a frustrating day early in her career, she wrote a cold-email to a personal shero to Samantha Power. Did we start the podcast solely to interview the people we admired from afar? Listen and decide for yourself.

In this interview, Samantha Power talks candidly about her frustrations about the civil war in Syria, successes in fighting Ebola and dictators like Joseph Kony, participating in the Paris climate accords, and the times she felt isolated within the Obama administration. She also shares her personal journey from big ideals to grappling with the scale of change available in a given moment and system.

And, we answer a listener question about how far our personal activism can go.

Transcript below.

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Producer: Gina Delvac

Hosts: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

Theme song: Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn

Composer: Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs.

Associate Producer: Jordan Bailey

Visual Creative Director: Kenesha Sneed

Merch Director: Caroline Knowles

Editorial Assistant: Laura Bertocci

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The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power

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