Walt Disney World is partnering with ABC Owned Television Stations to showcase the Disney Dreamers Academy in a new 30-minute special, Our America: In the Black – Disney Dreamers Academy.
What’s Happening:
- Running now for 17 years, the Disney Dreamers Academy is a five-day event designed to broaden career awareness and create opportunities for 100 Black high school students and teens from underrepresented communities across America.
- The latest episode of ABC Owned Television Stations’ Our America series aims to showcase this inspirational program by sharing its impact on students and highlighting the importance of entrepreneurship.
- In the special, Disney Dreamers Academy pairs Disney Dreamer alum Te’Lario Watkins, who aspires to end food insecurity, with Daymond John of ABC’s Emmy Award-winning series Shark Tank.
- John is one of several mentors who lend their time to Disney Dreamers Academy to empower the next generation of students to be champions of change.
- You can now watch Our America: In the Black – Disney Dreamers Academy for yourself across the ABC Owned Television Stations’ streaming and digital platforms.
- Click here to see more of Watkins’ trip to the set of Shark Tank, and click here to see more from this year’s Disney Dreamers Academy.
- Applications for the 2025 Disney Dreamers Academy are currently open through October 31st, 2024.
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