Elizabeth Yntema is the President & Founder of the Dance Data Project®.  DDP® was founded in 2015 as a simple database, and officially launched as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2019. Since then, our startup has released eleven studies, two guides to global opportunities for choreographers, a Choreographer Checklist and Financial Literacy Checklist, a global (and growing) listing of female leaders, choreographers, and designers in the industry, and a virtual interview series, Global Conversations, in (so far) three parts. Our mission is to  inform gender equity in ballet through data analysis, advocacy, and programming.