On this week’s Afternoon Tea, Sami Sage is joined by Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to the UN and bestselling author of The Education of an Idealist. They start with a conversation about the nature of courage, where it comes from, and how she took the leap to leave her job at Harvard and join Barack Obama’s team before he was president. They talk about working in a male dominated field (you know, like international diplomacy) and why it helps to compare notes with your female colleagues. They discuss the challenge of battling for human rights on an international stage, how people rationalize atrocities in the name of fear, and the role of human nature in our decisions (yeah we get deep here). Finally, they dive into the Four Questions, which leads to a conversation about why battling misinformation is the key to solving our climate crisis (and by extension most of our political problems).

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