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Disney launched the platform in September 2021 after years of work with underrepresented creators, crews, Disney employees, talent, and more. The project is a celebration of the diversity of the human experience and a way to showcase the importance of accurate representation in media. Go behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to weave inclusion and representation into the creative process.<a target="_blank" href="http://reimaginetomorrow.disney.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>

Explore the Making of the Reimagine Tomorrow Platform

Disney Tinker Lab was developed and implemented in partnership with Chicos.net — an nongovernmental organization specialized in the field of digital media and children’s rights since 1998 — exclusively within Latin America. This unique offering introduces innovative ways of learning through experimentation and story creation with digital media in schools. These programs focus on the abilities and skills that are nowadays considered vital for the full development of boys and girls and lay the foundation for “learning to learn” for a lifetime. Modules merge the STEAM education with doing, playing, and storytelling, to encourage digital literacy, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication in children. 
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Tinker Lab

Established in 2008, Disney Dreamers Academy is committed to inspiring African-American youth and to making a difference in their lives at a critical time — the high school years when they are thinking about their futures. Each year, 100 high school students experience an immersive, transformational program that aims to help them pursue and realize their dreams. Over the span of four unforgettable days at Walt Disney World, participants meet influential leaders and celebrities, get immersed in hands-on learning experiences and become part of the magic as our theme parks become the most vibrant of classrooms. At Disney Dreamers Academy, they’ll learn to propel themselves further than they ever imagined.

Disney Dreamers Academy

ESPN and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance have developed a mentoring program to support youth of color in the greater Los Angeles, New York, and District of Columbia communities. MBK Alliance focuses on building safe and supportive communities for boys and young men of color where they feel valued and have clear pathways to opportunity. Through this partnership, adult mentors will serve as role models, offer career counseling advice, provide educational guidance and encourage the young participants to define their aspirations and map out the futures they envision for themselves. The Undefeated, ESPN’s platform for exploring the intersections of race, sports and culture, will serve as a community hub to amplify compelling stories about the program.

ESPN and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance

Disney Musicals in Schools aims to improve access to arts education. The program launched in 2010, and to date has established theater programs in 388 underresourced public elementary schools in 26 cities across the U.S. and the UK. The program provides free performance and professional development materials to participating teachers. With COVID-19 impacting theaters and schools, Disney extended all performance licenses through the end of the next academic year. Many schools elected to produce virtual shows to keep theater programs thriving, an effort supported with special licensing permissions from Disney Theatrical Group.

Disney Musicals in Schools

One of the things that The Walt Disney Company’s two animation studios have in common is their commitment to inspire the next generation. Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios have each developed their own unique way to give back to aspiring students. In November 2020, Walt Disney Animation Studios hosted an online Student Summit for more than 1,500 college and university students from 55 countries and territories with the goal to inform, engage, inspire and prepare them for future careers in animation by hearing from directors and artists. In the Bay area, Pixar Animation Studios connects with Madison Park Academy and Madison Park Primary throughout the school year – offering free career panels, mock interviews, resume workshops, heritage month read-ins and draw-alongs with their own working artists.

Animation Studios Inspiring Future Storytellers

This team has been working since 2019 to advance workforce and culture opportunities, including an internal Black Talent Network for Black vice presidents across the company designed to accelerate their exposure, development, and sponsorship; and an HBCU (historically Black colleges and universities) strategy group focused on growing a stronger pipeline for Black professionals at Disney. The HBCU work includes hosting virtual career conversation events and virtual career overview sessions; identifying Disney’s HBCU alumni and amplifying their stories; and expanding the company’s United Negro College Fund (UNCF) relationship with increased Disney scholarships for HBCU students.

Black Employee Experience

In spring 2020, Disney introduced Reimagine Tomorrow to employees, elevating the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Reimagine Tomorrow is part of a multifaceted plan to drive brave, meaningful change across the company and support leaders and employees in navigating diversity, equality and inclusion in our communities and in the workplace. The work is anchored by six pillars: transparency, representation, accountability, community, content and culture. The Reimagine Tomorrow Conversation Series launched in May 2020, during a time when the world was experiencing a global pandemic. Through these authentic virtual events, featuring employees and internal and external experts, a shift was beginning to take place that ignited a spark within Disney’s culture to build capacity for change on a global scale.

Reimagine Tomorrow Conversation Series

Stories Matter

As part of the Shorts Incubator Program, up to six filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds are selected to present diverse perspectives through the production of original live-action shorts for proposed initial exhibition on Disney+. Work is underway to scale and enhance this program to allow more participants greater exposure, including the addition of an Unscripted Incubator through ABC News. Participants also will have an opportunity to be mentored by creative executives from Hulu, Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Studios, and more.

Disney Launchpad: Shorts Incubator

The Creative Talent Development &amp; Inclusion (CTDI) department, part of Disney General Entertainment Content, is a dedicated talent services team that actively connects writers, producers, directors and crew at all levels to opportunities across DGE. CTDI’s year-round work includes: directly sourcing talent for over 350 targeted requests from producers and executives; hosting over 150 networking and professional development events for over 2,000 creatives at all levels; and managing Disney’s flagship Writing, Directing and PA programs. CTDI also directly engages with dozens of entertainment industry, community and cultural organizations and partners with many in additional talent offerings. Every DGE network and studio has creative talent and crew that originated through CTDI.

Creative Talent Development & Inclusion Team

The Executive Incubator Program is an apprentice-style, two-year rotational program at Disney General Entertainment Content (DGE) designed to create a pipeline of the next generation of creative executives. These Creative Associates are exposed to all aspects of our business, including development, current, casting and marketing. On-the-job learning is combined with job shadowing, executive speaker events, department overviews, mentorship roundtables and social events. Associates rotate among ABC Entertainment, Freeform, FX Networks, and Disney Television Studios. This program is designed to create opportunities for individuals with diverse and varied perspectives across all dimensions of identity aspiring to hold executive roles at DGE. DGE is currently running two cohorts of the program with 13 Associates. The second cohort kicked off in January 2021 with eight new Creative Associates as part of its Executive Incubator Program.

Executive Incubator

The Apprenticeship Program creates opportunity and access for top underrepresented entry-level individuals by removing barriers and providing pathways into Disney General Entertainment Content (DGE) and the media/entertainment industry as a whole. Apprentices are part of a two-year program where they will gain experience supporting Creative Executives, blended with agency exposure and a curated cohort experience. Twelve apprentices were chosen from select colleges and universities across the country and began their apprenticeship in October 2020. Apprentices are placed across DGE content groups based on their areas of interest, including: ABC Entertainment, Disney Television Studios, Disney Branded Television, Freeform, FX Networks, National Geographic and Hulu.

Apprenticeship Program

In 2020, National Geographic unveiled the Field Ready Program in partnership with the National Geographic Society, the nonprofit arm of National Geographic, to promote diversity and inclusion in global television production, elevating and providing a clear path for a new generation of early-career National Geographic Explorers interested in working behind the camera. This year, the scope of fields is expanding from natural history to also include science, adventure and exploration filmmaking. Its goal is to accelerate skills and industry knowledge to communities historically underrepresented in these fields. The mentees will learn from industry leaders through mentorship, "master classes," and Q&amp;A sessions.

National Geographic: Field Ready Program

Learn about Disney’s internal and external programs focused on expanding representation in media and entertainment.

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