
Hi, I’m Jess (and yes, I work for Mickey Mouse—cue my go-to hairdresser icebreaker 😅). Let me tell you about the incredible gap year that changed my life forever: my year on the Disney College Program! This experience not only took me from my small hometown in Australia all the way to Walt Disney World…

I can’t believe that it’s been nearly a decade since I graduated from university (how did that happen?), but I can still vividly picture baby grad Jess – clutching her Bachelor of Design diploma like she’d just walked off the stage in a High School Musical 3 finale. She had big dreams, a whole lot…