Meet the Tour Guides Telling the Tales of ‘Women Who Make the Magic’ at Disneyland

This year, Disneyland Park added a new special guided tour honoring Women’s History Month: the Women Who Make the Magic Guided Tour, which spotlights the achievements of Harriet Burns, Alice Davis, Mary Blair, Ruth Shellhorn, Leota Toombs, Kim Irvine, Dorothea Redmond, and other visionary Disney women. Women Who Make Magic The tour came to be because of the influence of Cast Member Justin Turrentine, who has been a Disneyland Tour Guide since 2012. Driven by his deep love and admiration for his mother and aunt, Justin started thinking about a tour that focused specifically on the creative contributions of women within The Walt Disney Company. I wanted to work on a history tour that focused on the women of Disney, because they were there from the beginning....