[2] Sama's 11,000 employees have worked under contracts with companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Walmart, Getty Images, Glassdoor and Vulcan Capital.

[citation needed] She won a scholarship at 17 through American Field Services, and convinced them to let her spend it teaching in Ghana[5] where she spent 6 months during her senior year of high school.

[7] Janah left Katzenbach Partners in 2007 to become a visiting scholar at Stanford University with the Program on Global Justice, founded by law professor Joshua Cohen.

[7] One of the first organizations to engage in impact sourcing,[9] Sama workers are trained in basic computer skills and paid a local living wage for their labor.

[12] In 2013, Janah founded Samaschool (previously SamaUSA), a program that moves people out of poverty by providing digital skills training and a connection to internet-based jobs that pay a living wage.

The program was first introduced in a 2011 TechCrunch article[12] which attracted controversy for its assertion that Americans could compete with African and Asian workers who can afford to take assignments that pay lower fees.

Janah founded Samahope in 2012, the first crowdfunding platform that directly funded doctors who provide life-changing medical treatments for women and children in poor communities.

Samahope was built on the belief that transparent funding mechanisms could help close the global surgery gap and ensure that all people have access to medical treatments.

She was a recipient of the Rainer Arnhold and TEDIndia Fellowships, and served on the San Francisco board of TechSoup Global and the Social Enterprise Institute.

She was also named a “Rising Star” on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2011, one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” in 2012, and was profiled as one of Fortune’s “Most Promising Entrepreneurs” in 2013.