Dinna Yap

Dinna Yap

Dinna Yap is a Web Developer/SAP Business Analyst who graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Computer Engineering and received the Grainger Top 25 in Power Award.In addition to her academic achievement Dinna was actively involved with the campus community through Dance 2XS and Greek life.She has been dancing all different styles of dance for about eleven years including hip-hop, jazz, footwork!, house, trance, pom, and cultural.Although she has never formally taken dance classes, her experience includes: Showchoir (singing and dancing), Poms, Indian, Cambodian, Filipino and Latin dancing, choreographing for serenades and in addition to Dance 2XS.She also taught Hip-hop for Bally's and various high-school teams.She has been dancing with 2XS for the last 6 years, VP for one year, President/Director for 3 years, and co-founded the Chicago troupe in 2003.After graduation, Dinna chose to keep up with her dancing while balancing her career.This is now her second year as a Luvabull, a dancer for the Chicago Bulls.Drawing her vast experiences, Dinna will be facilitating a workshop about the importance of getting involved and staying involved and sharing her keys to success!