![]() Tom Rogers: I came to it in a very roundabout way. What inspired you to start working with Disney? The Harvard Crimson: Disney magic has made up a great deal of our collective childhoods. The Harvard Crimson sat down with Rogers to talk about his circuitous path to writerdom and Disney’s move away from “white princess culture.” ![]() ![]() Rogers is the writer behind such childhood classics as “Kronk’s New Groove,” “Cinderella II: Dreams Come True,” and “The Lion King 1½,” as well as his new show, “The Chicken Squad,” which is coming to Disney Junior in the fall of 2021. Now, after a nine-year stint as a staff writer for Disney animated television, he has a Daytime Emmy to his name for “Elena of Avalor,” a book titled “Eleven,” and a whole host of awards for his various movies. Tom Rogers ’84 came into his senior year of high school thinking he wanted to be a physicist. ![]()
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