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 we define it as work that pays a living wage and builds skills. Fundamentally it is about a person developing and growing in the work place and getting a chance to earn more income later in their lives. And what we have seen at SamaSource, based on our surveys, and we're pretty rigorous about t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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