Leila Janah
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Healing, not tweeting for now. Founder @Samasource @Samaschoolorg & @LXMIofficial. Author of #GiveWork. Adventure-lover. Sarcoma fighter.
SF, or a suitcase
Joined January 2008
11 years ago when I started @Samasource, everyone told me it would fail. Fairly paid humans in the AI loop? In Africa? W/ global clients?. SO proud of the dream team that got us to a $14.8M Series A led by @ridgevc to power the training data revolution! .
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So refreshing to see a tech leader recognize Africa’s place as the next great economic powerhouse. 👏🏽👏🏽. @jack, we’d be delighted to host you @Samasource to meet our 3,000+ East African team!.
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Quick health update — thank you all for your support and love during this time 🙏🏽
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This photo of the #tickfire is haunting. How many heroic firefighters will have to risk their lives, how many acres will have to burn, how many families will have to lose their homes before the US takes serious climate action?.
Tick Fire: 4,300 acres & 5% containment; see IC update for addt’l info on the LACoFD website at To our residents, please continue to heed evacuation orders. The Ready! Set! Go! guide is available on our website. For fire updates, follow @LACoFDPIO.
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Quick update from cancerland: . chemo sucks. wigs are more fun than I thought. and my m-team @Samasource & the doctors & nurses at @sloan_kettering all have a spot in The Good Place (which I also binge-watched; 🙏🏽 for the moral philosophy refresher @nbcthegoodplace!)
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“In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations.”.
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So sorry to hear this. @PacificStand will be sorely missed.
Today is an extremely difficult day, the worst day—and I’m heart-broken and devastated. We learned this morning, without any warning, that our primary funder is cutting off all charitable giving and that our board is shutting down @PacificStand, effective next Friday.
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RT @Samasource: Many thanks to @lowbrowkate for including us in this piece via @techreview. The AI supply chain conversation is an importan….
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Companies like CloudFactory, iMerit, and Samasource promise data sets provided by workers who are well paid and cared for. It’s not an easy business.
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“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” RIP Toni Morrison. Your light shines on in your words.
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I haven’t been in the mood to write lately but did want to share something that keeps me excited: @lxmiofficial entered a conservation agreement with a community in the Amazon, led by an incredible local chief and in…
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❤️.
Senegalese musician Sallilou playing the Cas Cas, also known as Kashaka, which is an instrument made by connecting two small, bean-filled gourds with a string.
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Did you catch @adamgopnik on @HenryLouisGates’s latest book? There was a moment just after the Civil War when we nearly achieved restorative justice for black Americans. But we didn’t hold confederate leaders accountable. The country regressed. Telling.
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During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.
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How many potential medicines will we lose in felling the most biodiverse forest on Earth? And for what — cattle farms and timber? This is pure stupidity.
The numbers in this story--and their implications--are truly terrifying. It echoes this week's story of Trump drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. Acts of nihilistic vandalism, just for the sake of $ and of showing who's boss.
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RT @Samasource: Google & Microsoft Banking on Africa's AI Labeling Workforce by @korihale via @Forbes #ainews #trainingdata #ai . https://t….
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I had more scans this week and cousteaupup came to the hospital with me, ever the faithful friend, putting up with blood draws and whirring CT machines and long waits. It’s insane that we prescribe such a large…
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Ethical AI and @samasource in the @financialtimes this week! We’ve created over 10,000 jobs in East Africa & enabled women and young people to build tech careers and invest in a trickle-UP economy. 🙏🏽 @madhumita29 #givework #samasource #africarising #ethicalAI
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When the tech industry talks about ethics in AI, it's usually about data privacy and very rarely about the people who train our algorithms and how they're treated. Proud to see @samasource covered in the @financialtimes today :)
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