Leila Janah
Founder and CEO (posthumous)
Miami Connection
No specific contributions to Miami or South Florida are identified in public records. Her work focused primarily on East Africa, India, and U.S. locations like San Francisco, Arkansas, California, New York, and Kenya. Any local ties, if they exist, are not detailed in known sources.
About
Born in 1982 in New York to Indian immigrants and raised in Los Angeles, Leila Janah graduated from Harvard in African Development Studies in 2005. She launched Samasource (originally Market for Change) in 2008 as a non-profit connecting low-income workers to online jobs, later expanding to AI data annotation for clients like Microsoft and Google. In 2015, she co-founded LXMI, a luxury skincare brand using fair-trade shea butter to create jobs in Uganda. There is no documented connection to Miami or South Florida in available records. Janah authored 'Give Work' and passed away in 2020 from cancer; her companies continue her legacy.