Award-Winning Filmmaker; Writer; Philanthropist; Activist; Chair and Co-Founder, Level Forward; Founder and CEO, Fork Films
Abigail Disney
Abigail Disney is the Chair and Co-Founder of Level Forward, a storytelling company focused on systematizing inclusion, innovation and impact through creative excellence to advance social change. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, writer, philanthropist, and activist, and through her work as Founder and CEO of Fork Films—the documentary production company behind the groundbreaking Pray the Devil Back to Hell and the subsequent PBS series Women, War & Peace—Ms. Disney has focused on creating stories that foster human understanding. Fork Films operated from 2007 to 2022, producing and supporting change-driven nonfiction media. She is the executive producer of Women, War & Peace II, as well as the Emmy-winning director of The Armor of Light, and co-directed and produced The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.
“The women and girls forced into prostitution in unthinkable numbers day after day are not simply an unfortunate fact of life. Their lives cannot be sacrificed to the idea that it is somehow an inevitable fact that men will always seek to serve their ‘needs’ in this way. Change is coming and now is the time to make it so. Abolition of demand. Abolition of exploitation and violence. Abolition of enslavement now and forever.”