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.
I think the thing that I found so shocking is the hopefulness and resilience of people who have nothing. It makes me emotional to think about it but I have witnessed...I met a young woman in one of the clinics that we held last year, Tianga, who was raped by her school teacher when she was 12 and t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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