In early February, music educators from across the Buckeye state convened in Cleveland for the annual Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) Professional Development Conference. This year's OMEA Graduate Research Forum featured Dr. Kenneth Elpus, renowned music education scholar, as the keynote speaker. Dr. Elpus is associate professor of music education and associate director at the University of Maryland School of Music. His research efforts have primarily focused on music education and educational policy, music student and teacher demographics, and access to arts education in the United States. Dr. Elpus' keynote address highlighted his past, present, and ongoing research analyzing nationally representative data sets. Attendees were fortunate to view his in-process work on music teacher demography and his recently published studies on the availability of high school arts courses and the demographic profile of middle school music students.