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.
And, you know, I think this is a growing issue, not just in internet based work but also in all types of manufacturing work, right? What's interesting if you look at manufacturing is that there's a growing trend, and I'm not an economist so I haven't studied the numbers in depth, but I have noticed...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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