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.
Well, sama means equal in Sanskrit. It is the root word for same in many languages around the world. I love the term sama because, although I don't think everybody should necessarily have an equal outcome in life, I do believe in a relatively equal starting point. And I believe it is the duty of ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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