Lena Khan

Lena is a national nonprofit on a mission to transform children’s futures through early talk technology and data-driven programs. Backed by 20+ years of research, lena grow focuses on the key marker of quality in early childhood education: Or, what lena calls “conversational turns.”

Our community advisory board brings together a coalition of leaders and thinkers across the early childhood community to inform key strategic decisions at lena. Lena online™ v3 is a platform for accessing lena's early talk technology and data-driven programs to transform children's futures. Discover lena's data-driven research insights on children's language development.

At lena, we turn the science of measuring conversational turns into action. From head start classrooms to family child care homes and private child care centers, and from libraries to public health initiatives and research universities, lena’s programs are creating. Discover lena grow's impact on child development and teacher retention.

The lena technology system is the world’s only hardware and software suite that measures interactions in early childhood education settings. Meet our lena leadership team and board of directors.