Whatever happened to that Imagineer lady who was in charge of Little Mermaid? She was in all the publicity pre-opening, but
POOF! she isn't mentioned any more.
https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/06/under-the-sea-with-imagineer-lisa-girolami/
EDIT: Oh my gosh. I just Googled her, and she's alive and well and apparently quite a gal. She is still with WDI according to her Linkedin, but she also is a
"Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) licensed with the Board of Behavioral Sciences, California." That's an unusual skill to take to Imagineering, don't you think?
And she is an author of books that, um, you'd probably want to put a paper book cover over if you were taking them to the beach. Here is the only book image I found that was suitable for this family website, from a 2008 book she wrote titled "Love On Location". Ms. Girolami's other titles include such steamy reads as "The Heat of Angels", "Fugitives of Love", "The Pleasure Set", etc.
And so they chose her to be in charge of the Little Mermaid Omnimover ride??? Things are starting to make sense on that one, even though I'm even more confused than I ever was.