Lena Petrova Biography

Lena is a national nonprofit on a mission to transform children’s futures through early talk technology and data-driven programs. Our community advisory board brings together a coalition of leaders and thinkers across the early childhood community to inform key strategic decisions at lena. 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.

At lena, we turn the science of measuring conversational turns into action. Meet our lena leadership team and board of directors. Discover lena's data-driven research insights on children's language development.

Lena is built on research — our programs, resources, and advocacy. 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.”

Discover lena grow's impact on child development and teacher retention.