Lecture by Leila Chirayath Janah
| Organization | California College of the Arts |
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| Address | 1111 Eighth St., San Francisco, CA, United States | |||||
| Phone | 415-703-9415 | |||||
| Website | http://www.cca.edu/calendar/2012/lecture-leila-chirayath-janah | |||||
| Start | October 11, 2012 | |||||
| End | October 11, 2012 | |||||
| Closed | Sunday - Wednesday, Friday - Saturday | |||||
Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social business that connects people living in poverty to microwork -- small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income.
Before coming to Samasource, she was a visiting scholar with the Stanford University Program on Global Justice and the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Australia. 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.)