After bumping Susan Rice up to the top of his national security team, President Obama named the relatively unknown author and journalist Samantha Power as her successor at the UN. While the pair of nominations put Rice back in the limelight, it also raised questions about the new face representing America at the United Nations.

Power’s Pulitzer-prize winning book on genocide sprang from horrors she witnessed as a young journalist in Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia. She went on to work as an Obama campaign hand before her abrupt resignation for calling Hillary Clinton a ‘monster.’ Later, she resurfaced as the head of the White House’s human rights office. But one thing missing from her resume is any diplomatic experience whatsoever- and soon, the self-proclaimed ‘genocide chick’ could get her first shot at holding such a post.

Her controversial ‘monster’ comments came during the thick of the 2008 primary fight between Clinton and Obama and were reported in The Scotsman just after the former Secretary of State dusted the president in Ohio’s open primary. “We f*cked up in Ohio,” she said. “In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio’s the only place they can win. She is a monster, too- that is off the record- she is stooping to anything.”

As part of President Obama’s first-term national security team, she pushed for a more interventionist strategy in Libya and was outspoken on human rights issues across the globe. Her nomination has been seen as evidence that the president’s second-term foreign policy agenda will focus on human rights.

In a 2002 interview on Israel, Power claimed that she believed ‘external intervention’ might be necessary to foster Middle Eastern peace.

She made those comments after being asked how she would advise the president to handle a situation in the region if genocide were to occur.