It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

In today s high tech world, we re increasingly isolated from one another. And yet, in some ways it s easier than ever to make connections. On this edition of Out to Lunch, Stephanie Riegel introduces two guests who are helping us connect. One, through an app that brings people together; the other, through an organization that helps start up businesses connect and find synergies that can help them thrive and grow. Alayna Dixon is the creator of a mobile app called Redu, which enables its users to connect with someone they ve actually seen and might like to meet. It s like a mobile dating web site, but instead of browsing through bios and pictures of strangers, you re searching for a guy or a girl you ve actually spotted in an elevator or walking across campus or at the gym. And if that person has the app, too and here s the key to its success then you re able to find them and make contact. Alayna and her mom, Marcelle, created the app after one missed opportunity. They rolled out the product earlier in 2016 a