Leila Janah – Founder & CEO of Samasource
After graduating from
Harvard with a degree in Development Studies, researching with the World Bank
and Ashoka, and directing various non profit efforts in the U.S. and U.K.,
Leila has gone on to found Samasource,, a company and non profit which utilizes
a unique microwork model to bring the world’s poor to dignified employment in
the digital economy by breaking down small computer-based tasks from larger
projects. Samasource was founded in 2008, but already provides employment with
in-country partners in Haiti, India, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, and
Uganda.
“The greatest challenge of
the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone…
not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.”
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