Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource, a non-profit social business that gives digital work to impoverished people around the world.
Prior to Samasource, Janah was a a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let's Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo.
Leila Janah received a BA from Harvard.
Internationally, we're really rigorous about tracking impact. When I formed SamaSource, I had this vision of creating a poverty alleviation organization that would actually track how many people it moved over the poverty line, by how much, at what cost to donors, and how long they stayed above the ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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