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.
So, SamaSource is based on the premise that, whether you care about human rights or peace and security, whether you care about infant mortality, sex trafficking or food security, what is at the root of many of the challenges in these sectors is lack of access to decent work. A living wage can trans...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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