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Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource, a non-profit social business that gives digital work to impoverished people around the world. ==Background== Janah was born on October 9th, 1982 in Lewiston, New York, near Niagara Falls,〔(Leila Janah's Crunchbase Profile )〕 and grew up in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. She attended the California Academy of Mathematics and Science. She won a college scholarship at 16, but convinced them to let her spend it teaching in Ghana,〔http://www.stratford.edu/tech_talk_shows/shows/2011-03-01〕 and attended Harvard University, graduating in 2005 with a degree in African Development Studies.〔http://www.linkedin.com/in/leilajanah〕 While at Harvard, she consulted to and authored papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on social and economic rights. Upon graduation, Janah worked as a management consultant with Katzenbach Partners . Janah left the firm in 2007 to become a visiting scholar at Stanford University with the Program on Global Justice, founded by law professor Joshua Cohen. That year, she co-founded Incentives for Global Health with Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale, and Aidan Hollis, a Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary, which established a blueprint for incentivizing the development of new drugs for neglected diseases.〔http://www.samasource.org/about/team〕 In 2008, she launched Samasource (then called Market for Change), an idea that was inspired by her experiences at the World Bank and in field work in Mozambique, Senegal, and Rwanda while she attended Harvard. Janah got her first contract for SamaSource with a company called Benetech, a non-profit social enterprise that provides technology solutions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leila Janah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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