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.
My general advice to students is to develop some particular expertise in a category. So if you are interested in marketing, learn marketing skills. Those are going to be really relevant to a social venture. If you're interested in engineering, go take some....obviously you will have computer scie...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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