Lynnette Young Overby is the former director of the Community Engagement Initiative and the founding director of the Partnership for Arts & Culture at the University of Delaware. She also serves as artistic director of the Sharing Our Legacy Dance Theatr and was president of the National Dance Association, the Michigan Dance Council, and the Delaware Dance Education Organization. Overby received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Dance Education Organization. She is a member of the National Council on the Humanities and was recently inducted into the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship.