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懂色帝鈥檚 Brittani Morganfield and ImagineU students invent travel safety app

By Chris Caldwell 

Brittani Morganfield
Brittani Morganfield presents her group鈥檚 project,
We Trip, Too, at ImagineU Demo Day on Aug. 12,
2022 at the FedEx Institute of Technology.

懂色帝 student Brittani Morganfield spent the summer of 2022 learning how to fine-tune her entrepreneurial skills at the program. Much to her surprise, the experience unexpectedly led to the invention of a mobile app. 

Morganfield applied and was chosen to participate in the intensive and select 12-week program held annually through the. 

During the course of the program, she and her cohorts Sahitya Buddharaju, Amun Akil Tyz, and Carl Bledsoe Jr., co-founded We Trip Too, an app to protect women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color from intolerance, discrimination, and harm while traveling. The app is set to launch February 2023.

鈥淲e Trip, Too was created because all four of us could relate to feeling uncomfortable or unsafe in our travels for different reasons,鈥� Morganfield said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 when we knew the problem was much bigger than we anticipated, and we needed to develop an app to help people know where they can feel safe." 

Morganfield said that when she first started the program, she wasn鈥檛 sure what to expect but kept an open mind. 鈥淭his is an intense program and I had my trepidations but working with my team members on such a special project has given me so many professional and personal rewards, and lifelong friendships!鈥� Morganfield said. 

Brittani Morganfield
Morganfield proudly holds her certificate of
completion during the UofM ImagineU Demo
Day ceremony.

There were a few challenges along the way. Morganfield contracted COVID-19, which kept her away from the Crews Center and her teammates for nearly three weeks. 鈥淚t wasn't ideal, but I was determined to make it work,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 expect it to be easy and it helped that I was on an amazing team and working on something all of us are passionate about.鈥�

The program was well worth the challenges. Her team won $2,500 for their We Trip, Too app, which they will split evenly among themselves. They also plan to take their individual winnings to invest in their own personal businesses.

鈥淚鈥檓 so grateful for this experience. Working with my team was the best way I could鈥檝e spent my summer. I learned how to work efficiently and to conduct presentations in front of a variety of people. I had to learn that I don鈥檛 always know everything and it鈥檚 ok as long as I keep moving forward,鈥� she said.