Presidential Fellow
Email: kurtti@chapman.edu
Biography
Jeff Kurtti is the most prolific nonfiction author in Disney history, with more than
40 volumes to his credit over 25 years. A leading authority on The Walt Disney Company,
its founder, and its history, Kurtti is also a writer-director of award-winning documentary
content, and a respected public speaker. For several years, he worked for Walt Disney
Imagineering, the theme park design division of The Walt Disney Company, and then
for the Corporate Special Projects department of Disney. Since 1995, Kurtti has enjoyed
a career as an author, writer, and consultant in the motion picture, theater, and
themed-design industries. He was creative director, content consultant, and media
producer for The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, and a producer of The
Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story, a critically acclaimed documentary about the famed
songwriters.