Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde Nominated For Lowell Thomas Award From Explorers Club
Confession: I am a HUGE Joe Rohde fangirl! That’s why I’m excited to share the news that this beloved Disney Imagineer, has recently been honored by the Explorers Club as a nominee for the Lowell Thomas Award. The award acknowledges individuals on the forefront of exploration and the awards will be handed out next month in Washington D.C.
Let’s take a look at just a few of Joe’s amazing accomplishments:
Joseph M. Rohde
Joseph M. Rohde, is a Creative Executive at Walt Disney Imagineering. He is known for leading the team that conceptualized, designed, and built Disney’s Animal Kingdom, a theme park with a strong wildlife conservation message. In the process of creating the park itself, Rohde was instrumental in the development of the Disney Conservation Fund, which has allocated over seventy million dollars to projects around the world. Throughout his life, Rohde has participated in a number of research expeditions on behalf of the Disney Company to regions and countries all over the world. He speaks regularly on the art of cultivating creative innovation through narrative framing and has spoken at NASA, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the TED conference, as well as many other venues.
For those unfamiliar with The Explorers Club, it is a professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. The society has been around since 1904. Members of the club have been responsible for the first trip to the North and South Poles, to the summit of Mount Everest and also first to the deepest point in the ocean!
Congratulations Joe!
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