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Lekha Venkataraman

Pronouns: She/Her

Senior Research Director
The Bridge at NORC
Lekha has over 20 years of experience in survey research.

Lekha is a senior research director in the Bridge at NORC. Her primary areas of expertise are in the design and management of both in-person and web-based studies. She has extensive experience working in early education and school based projects, including questionnaire design, recruitment, training, IT systems development, data collection management and data delivery.

She currently serves as a senior task lead on the 2024 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families. The 2024 NSECE is a large-scale, mixed mode data collection effort, which builds on findings from the 2012 and 2019 NSECE, to allow for comparisons of supply and demand of child care and early education over the 12 years that span data collection. In addition, she leads numerous smaller data collection projects,  such as the Brilliant Baby survey, Getting on Track, and the Kindergarten Readiness Indicator. Lekha also serves as the project manager on multiple projects, helping to manage and forecast budgets as well as assisting with contract management.

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BA

University of Chicago

AM

University of Chicago