Ambassador Samantha Power: Reimagining international aid

What are the causes and consequences of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)? Ambassador Samantha Power, USAID administrator from 2021 to 2025 and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks about the impacts of reductions in U.S. foreign assistance, the challenge of demonstrating the effectiveness of aid programs to the public, and what's needed to restore — or reimagine — U.S. foreign aid. Power’s talk was a Bartels World Affairs Lecture hosted by the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University.

Learn more at: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/04/former-un-ambassador-usaid-director-calls-rebuilding-foreign-aid

Learn more about the Bartels World Affairs Lecture at: https://einaudi.cornell.edu/engage/signature-events/bartels-world-affairs-lecture