The Moses Brown Alumni Association is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Spring Alumni Awards who will be honored at this year’s Reunion celebrations. 
 

The 25th Reunion Achievement Award
Since 1966, the Moses Brown Alumni Association has presented the Achievement Award to a member of the 25th Reunion Class in recognition of professional excellence and outstanding service to the community. 

Kristen Lorello ’00

Kristen Lorello is the owner of Kristen Lorello, a contemporary art gallery in New York City, that opened in 2014.  She specializes in developing the careers of emerging artists from the United States and abroad.  She currently represents fifteen artists working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and photography, and has placed their works in prestigious collections including the RISD Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum of Arts and Design, NY.  Kristen developed her career in New York City from 2005-2012 at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, where she held various roles, including Director of Operations, Associate Director, and Archivist.

Kristen graduated from Barnard College summa cum laude, phi beta kappa in 2004 and holds an MA in the History of Art from Hunter College.  In 2006 she received a prestigious Fulbright Grant to conduct research on contemporary art in Rome, where she immersed herself in the complex relationships between artists, curators, and institutions for contemporary art.  She went on to lecture, publish, and curate exhibitions in the United States featuring Italian contemporary artists.  In her free time, Kristen enjoys cooking, traveling, learning French, and continuing to improve her Italian.  She lives in New York City with her husband, Christopher Saunders, their daughter, Céline, and their miniature poodle, Stella.
 

The Distinguished Alum Award
The Distinguished Alum Award recognizes an alum for significant, long-term success in personal and professional achievements, who has made outstanding contributions to their profession and has rendered distinguished service to the public welfare, thus honoring Moses Brown School.

Ted Widmer ’80

Ted Widmer is Distinguished Lecturer at the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York. Before that he taught or directed research centers at Harvard University, Washington College, the Library of Congress, and Brown University. He earned an A.B. degree in the History and Literature of France and America and a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization, both from Harvard. In addition to his teaching, he served as a foreign policy speechwriter and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and later as a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker. He also serves as a trustee of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Robert College in Istanbul. In 2020 he published Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington, which won the Lincoln Forum Book Prize and the first book prize of the Society of Presidential Descendants. With support from the Guggenheim Foundation, he is working on a book project relating to Boston in April 1968. 

Faculty/Staff Member of the Year
Each year, the Moses Brown Alumni Association honors a member of the faculty or staff for impact on the school community. Chosen from many fine teachers, and members of the staff, the recipient is recognized as an outstanding professional, educator, mentor, and friend.

Karim Sow

Born in Mali, Karim grew up in the Cote d’Ivoire and Guinea. He arrived at Moses Brown in 1994 after hearing about a position when he gave a ride to a job applicant. He has since been teaching French and Spanish in Middle School, coaching soccer and more recently became a basketball liaison. Karim has contributed significantly to the school as diversity coordinator, advisor and mentor and regularly shares his Fulani wisdom. It is a testimony to Karim’s passion for soccer that his 30-year tenure tree faces Wasserman Field.

Karim graduated from University of Niger (1981) and University of Aix-en-Province (1983) in French Modern literature. He then returned to Niger and Cote d’Ivoire to be a French teacher for 15 years. In 1992, he moved to the US as a political refugee after the repression of the Ivorian teacher’s union for which he was the ghost writer.