Leila Janah, founder of Samasource, recalls how she came to commit her life to fighting poverty after witnessing first hand the grit and resourcefulness of villagers living on a dollar a day in sub-Saharan Africa. “We’re wasting the most important natural resource on the planet, which isn’t gold or diamonds or lithium. It’s the talent at the bottom of the pyramid.”
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