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Leila Janah

Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource and LXMI, two companies that share a common social mission to end global poverty by giving work to people in need. She is also the co-author of America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age, a book by Rework America: A Markle Initiative.

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Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sister ...

I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most dev ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth ten ...

Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measureme ...

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignifi ...

Samasource creates jobs in regions where more traditional forms of employment in low-income economie ...

Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think w ...

I think the philosophy that you have to have if you travel frequently is, stuff is just stuff. Even ...

I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part o ...

Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is ...

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to ...

Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last centu ...

Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody su ...

So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It ...

The thing that the Internet does is it allows labor to move freely across borders in the way that ca ...