Dr. Eric Legg talks with professionals about their journey to and at Arizona State University, their current careers, and how they make an impact on the world. Guests are alumni, faculty/staff, and partners of ASU’s School of Community Resources & Development.
In this mini episode of We Do That: Careers That Make a Difference, Eric Legg interviews Jenny Driessen, who just completed ASU’s recreational therapy certificate and passed the NCTRC exam to earn her CTRS. After being laid off and previously leaving a stressful real estate career following a cancer diagnosis, she pursued work that fit her interests in fitness, art, and wellness, building on experience as a yoga instructor and personal trainer. Jenny says recreation and creative activities support mental and physical health, especially during adversity, and encourages career changers that it’s never too late to start over. Her advice for students is to say yes to tours, networking, and exploring different populations, and to stand out in job searches by showing your work in person.
21 Jul 2026
Jordyn Hoff: From Soccer Fields to Botswana - A Journey Through the Peace Corps
Jordyn Hoff, newly returned from two and a half years in the Peace Corps, reflects on her path from growing up in Seattle and Portland to ASU and international service. A quiet kid who became a vocal soccer goalkeeper, she explains how sports built leadership, communication, and teamwork skills she later used in college and abroad. In college, she switched majors from anthropology to criminal justice to public policy before settling on nonprofit leadership and management, joined Rise Tutoring with refugees, did undergraduate research, and ran a Blaze Radio show about horror movies. After a study abroad internship in Cape Town, she served in Botswana as an HIV/AIDS life skills educator in a primary school, describing culture shock, language learning, isolation, and community life. Her advice: try everything, plan early, seek scholarships, listen first, and focus on helping individuals rather than “saving the world.”
24 Jun 2026
Jess Amato: Building Communities Through Play and Recreation
Recreation therapist Jess Amato shares a childhood of boating, card games, journaling, and outdoor activity that shaped her minimalist, active adulthood. At ASU she discovered her dream job had a name—recreational therapy—after advisors told her it “didn’t exist,” and she became an advocate for the field. Her career moved from pediatric and hospital settings to community-based work, Ability360, schools, and leading a school-based rec therapy program in New Hampshire while earning a master’s in community development and running a two-year project in Zimbabwe. She founded Platform to Play to expand access to play through school culture work, inclusion training, and global projects across Africa and beyond, emphasizing adaptability, cultural humility, and “practice what you preach.”
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