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Alumni Students Experience Design 2020
After BYU Marriott ExDM alumna Macie Briggs Duncan went on a trip to Disneyland, she set a goal to help create enjoyable and memorable experiences for others.

A painter, dancer, and designer, Kari Durrant describes herself as a primarily right-brained person. She intended to major in dance at BYU, but after encountering recreational therapy as part of a class assignment, Durrant eventually made the switch to recreation management. Her new major, she discovered, would enable her to use her creative side in ways she hadn’t expected.
Most people would not move by themselves to an island they had never visited in the middle of a global pandemic. BYU Marriott TRM senior Stephanie Janczak is not one of those people.

The Department of Experience Design and Management at BYU Marriott had to get creative this Fall semester when the program welcomed its new cohort during its annual new student orientation.

When Katie Morgan took a social innovation class at BYU last semester, she didn't anticipate joining a research group based on empowering women. Now, she's part of a team researching how to help women find confidence and new opportunities