Abigail Disney has never been one to shy away from saying exactly what’s on her mind. She’s a longtime philanthropist and documentarian, using both as outlets for issues she strongly believes in, and in 2019, she turned her megaphone on wealth inequality and the company that bears her family name.
Disney, the granddaughter of cofounder Roy O. Disney, has previously criticized the company’s CEO Bob Iger for his $65 million paycheck. In a subsequent documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, she shed light on the pay and working conditions of Disney theme park employees earning $15 an hour. Last year, she was one of more than 150 millionaires who signed an open letter to Davos guests calling for higher taxes on the rich.
