Lena joined the firm in 2024 as a legal assistant. She received her B.A. from Columbia University in 2024, where she majored in Sociology and concentrated in Women’s and Gender Studies. While at Columbia, Lena was on the Dean's List every semester, served on the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review, and volunteered with The Remedy Project defending the human rights of incarcerated people. In addition, she completed an undergraduate thesis in Sociology on religion and incarceration.

During college, Lena worked as a Mitigation Specialist Intern at the Osborne Association, where she helped to prepare pre-plea and pre-sentence memorandums recommending alternatives to incarceration. She has also worked as a Communications Intern at South Bronx United, a non-profit that provides participants with soccer programming alongside educational, immigration, and college prep services.