THIS YEAR ANCA EASTERN REGION WILL PRESENT THE FREEDOM AWARD TO
SAMANTHA POWER

WASHINGTON, JULY 25, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN The Armenian
National Committee of America, Eastern Region (ANCA-ER), announced the
honorees for its Second Annual Banquet and Awards Program, to take
place on September 13, 2008 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
As announced previously, the ANCA-ER will present the ANCA Freedom
Award to Harvard University professor and human rights activist Dr.
Samantha Power. A leading voice on genocide awareness, Power won the
Pulitzer Prize for her book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of
Genocide. She teaches at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at
Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and was a senior
adviser to U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama.