All Ears with Abigail Disney
Abigail has a new documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, in which she examines the inequality crisis through the lens of the company her grandfather helped found, The Walt Disney Company. In the film, she asks how it is possible that so many workers at Disneyland, aka “the happiest place on earth,” can’t afford life's basic necessities, even when they work full time. For the fourth season of All Ears, Abigail poses that question to people who are doing the most Disney thing of all–using their imaginations–in this case to rethink capitalism. She talks with business leaders, union organizers, and economists to learn how they would fix our broken economy.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 53
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Harvard Business School Professor Rebecca Henderson: Is Business Ethics An Oxymoron?
This week on All Ears Abby welcomes Professor Rebecca Henderson, who teaches about innovation, corporate culture change, and ethics at Harvard Business School. Her class, “Reimagining Capitalism”, i…
Heather McGhee: The Hierarchy Of Human Value
This week on All Ears Abby talks to author and commentator Heather McGhee. Heather is a distinguished senior fellow at the progressive think tank Demos, where she also served as president for four ye…
Stacey Abrams: Make Way For (Civically Engaged) Ducklings
In this week’s episode, Abby talks to one of Joe Biden’s shortlisted VP candidates, Stacey Abrams. Recounting her upbringing in Mississippi, the former Georgia House of Representatives minority leade…
Kimberlé Crenshaw: The Woman at the Intersection of Intersectionality
This week is a deep dive into how we can shed ingrained ideologies, question our identities, and form our intellectual selves. Abby is joined by UCLA and Columbia Law School professor Kimberlé Crensh…
Van Jones: A Video Can Change A Nation
This week on All Ears Abby welcomes CNN host and New York Times’ best-selling author Van Jones. Van talks about being a young civil rights lawyer in Oakland at the time of the Rodney King trial, and …
Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II: Before George Floyd Was Ever Killed By This Cop, The Systems Were Suffocating Him
Continuing our focus on activism around the murder of George Floyd by police on May 25th, Abby welcomes Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, Co-Chair of The Poor People’s Campaign, and President of Rep…
Rajasvini Bhansali: The Time To Challenge The Insidious Calculus Of White Supremacy Is Now
All Ears is stepping back this week from our COVID-19 focus to turn our attention to the national anguish resulting from the murder of George Floyd by police on May 25th. At the forefront of Abby’s m…
Cecile Richards: The Resilience Of Women Is Profound, And It's Happening Right Now
This week on All Ears Abby is joined by Supermajority co-founder and former President of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards. Cecile and Abby discuss their shared experiences of having a famous paren…
Senator Elizabeth Warren: The Political Is Very, Very Personal
This week on All Ears, Abby talks to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren about the loss of her eldest brother to COVID-19, one of over 93,000 loved ones lost to the pandemic in this country (as of this epi…
Ford Foundation President Darren Walker: Is Everything That Matters Metric-able?
Join Abby and Ford Foundation President Darren Walker (@darrenwalker), as they discuss modern philanthropy: how it has evolved, how its success is measured, and who it benefits, on both sides of the …
Radical CEO Activism: Paying Every Employee A Living Wage
On our new episode of All Ears, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price joins Abby from Seattle to talk about his experience as a small business owner in Seattle. Five years ago, Dan made a radical decision t…
The Essential Female Workers of COVID-19
In the inaugural episode of All Ears, Abby is joined by Columbia University professor and human rights lawyer Terry McGovern to discuss how gender discrimination undermines job security, equal pay, a…
Introducing "All Ears with Abigail Disney"
Each week on "ALL EARS" filmmaker Abigail Disney will call a bold thinker from the front lines of America’s inequality crisis to debate and explore the problems, perils and maybe even opportunities m…