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Leila Janah Discusses Value Of Human Dignity

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  • Date Added : 10/2/2013
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Leila Janah

  • Founder, Samasource
  • female
  • Asian
  • 1982 (Age: 42 years old)
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
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Biography

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 believe that work is at the core of human dignity. And I think that in doing work people learn to understand their value in human society. And I think this is especially true for people who have been systematically told, you know, overtly or, you know, more subtly that they don't really deserve ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Leila Janah videos

Video 1 of 15 Leila Janah Shares Family Story And Entrepreneurialism
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 3 min. 29 sec.
Video 2 of 15 Leila Janah States Importance of Talking To The Group of People You Wish To Serve
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 0 min. 49 sec.
Video 3 of 15 Leila Janah Provides Background on Not For Profit, Sama Group
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 4 min. 4 sec.
Video 4 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Value Proposition for Samasource
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 1 min. 6 sec.
Video 5 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Importance of Treating People Fairly
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 1 min. 8 sec.
Video 6 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Value Of Human Dignity
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 2 min. 36 sec.
Video 7 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Evolving Strategy Of The Business
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 2 min. 57 sec.
Video 8 of 15 Leila Janah Shares Concerns About Automation And Work Opportunities
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 2 min. 3 sec.
Video 9 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Samasource's US Program
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 3 min. 1 sec.
Video 10 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Challenges In Producing Higher Quality Output
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 2 min. 13 sec.
Video 11 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Social Justice And Samasource Business Model
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 3 min. 44 sec.
Video 12 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Tracking Tools And Measuring Impact Of Company Efforts
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 2 min. 19 sec.
Video 13 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Exposure To Poverty
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 2 min. 12 sec.
Video 14 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Women And Leadership
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 1 min. 48 sec.
Video 15 of 15 Leila Janah Discusses Surprised At Resilience Of People Who Have Nothing
  • Leila Janah - Interview - Samasource
  • 10/2/2013
  • Leila Janah
  • 1 min. 47 sec.

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