Alida Rockefeller Messinger

[3] Outside of activism, she is a former trustee of the Rockefeller Family Fund, a public charity started by her father and his siblings.

Her great-grandfather is John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company and widely considered to be the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history.

[7] She has said, "My father and mother's greatest fear was that their four children might take their wealth for granted and grow up spoiled and arrogant ...

1947), the son of Bruce Dayton, who was part of a family that started the retail store that eventually became Target.

[10] After the divorce, she married William Messinger, president of Aureus, an addiction recovery organization.