Samantha Power served as Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2021 to 2025 and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, best known for her book "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" (2002).
She was a senior foreign policy adviser to President Obama and is currently a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Power's name appears on the DOJ's list of 305 politically exposed persons and government officials whose names appear at least once in the documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The DOJ provided this list to Congress in February 2026 in a six-page letter accompanying the mass document release.
The DOJ letter explicitly noted that inclusion on the list does not imply any connection to Epstein's crimes; names appear in the files for many reasons, including Epstein keeping news clippings about prominent figures, forwarding news articles about government officials via email, or maintaining extensive contact files. No specific direct personal connection between Power and Epstein has been reported by journalists reviewing the files, and no allegations of misconduct involving her have been made.