Lena Kahn

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. 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 measurable. Meet our lena leadership team and board of directors. Discover lena's data-driven research insights on children's language development.

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

At lena, we believe this is one of early childhood’s most solvable challenges.