Kohlgill

Dr. Kohl Singh Gill is the President and Founder of LaborVoices, Inc., a start-up company providing information services to migrant workers and supply-chain managers.

LaborVoices

LaborVoices is an anti-trafficking labor rights initiative—JustDial crossed with Yelp.com, building reputations of employers, created by workers, for workers, entirely via voice and text messaging. LaborVoices tackles the flip-side of the reputation problem from most actors in this space—rather than marketing workers to employers, we’re using workers’ own knowledge to create and share information on employers, helping workers to help each other make better decisions. LaborVoices is bringing transparency to the unorganized sector, making our worker sentiment stream as open as possible (while preserving the safety of workers, themselves) for third parties to collect information for advocacy, supply-chain management, consumer point-of-sale decision-making, regulatory debate, etc. LaborVoices’s long-term business model rests on providing valuable worker sentiment analysis to third-parties, including supply-chain managers. The LaborVoices pilot project is currently in process in Bangalore. More details are here: http://laborvoices.com/Proposal .

Work Experience

Dr. Gill served as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow for the U.S. Departments of Energy and State, most recently as the South Asia and Middle East Labor Affairs Officer for the Office of International Labor and Corporate Social Responsibility in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. In the U.S. Department of Energy, Dr. Gill served as a Senior Analyst in the Office of Planning and Analysis of the Office of Science. Prior to federal service, Dr. Gill was an Indicorps Fellow in the slum areas of Delhi, India, serving as a volunteer paralegal with local residents, using transparency legislation to fight both petty and grand corruption at the local level.

Education

Dr. Gill is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, for his work in quantum computing and semiconductor physics.

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