When Krista Ledbetter, a global human resources operations associate at the Walt Disney Company, was pursuing her Bachelor’s of Science degree she realized she needed to make a choice: go into debt in order to pay for school or to go to work. She chose to work.
In 2002, she said goodbye to a job she loved as an attraction hostess at Disneyland and ventured out into the business world where she would spend the next 15 years in property management. But it was a career path she didn’t love. So in July 2018 Ledbetter returned to Disney in her current role, but she still hoped she’d be able to pursue her education.
