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    Thanks to our three alumni speakers -- Loren Koszowski, Kurt Oleson and Ben Brady -- who wowed us with their funny and intriguing stories at StanTalks. We're proud to call them Bulldogs!

    And thank you to Chris Lewis, our Spirit of Stanley award winner, for bringing 30+ years of his creativity, humor and amazing gift with children to our school. Congratulations!

  • Speakers 2025

    Ben Brady '05 received his start on the Stanley Ballroom stage, and is now a professional opera singer. His most recent role was singing Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Eugene Opera, and he will next cover the Speaker in The Magic Flute at The Metropolitan Opera. Ben graduated from Denver East High School and received his Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan. He was also a San Francisco Opera Merola Young Artist in 2020-2021, and a Santa Fe Opera Apprentice in 2022-2023.

    Loren Koszowski '09 is a new school founder at the Legacy Institute, a 24-month program to support educational leaders in opening charter schools to bring high-quality educational opportunities to students from all socioeconomic and racial/ethnic backgrounds. She is working on founding a new school in Colorado Springs that is based on Stanley's model called Spruce Community School. She previously taught in our 3-4-5 Ponderosa Pine classroom, and at High Tech High in San Diego. She was the valedictorian at St. Mary's Academy and then received her BA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from CU Boulder and her Master's in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

    Kurt Oleson '07 is an avid musician with a passion for the growing link between technology and the fine arts. For the past ten years he has worked with Custom Channels, beginning as music engineer and now serving as the Vice President of Operations. After graduating from Colorado Academy, he received a BS in Cognitive Science and Music Engineering at Tufts University in Boston and a few years later received a MS in Organizational Leadership from CU Boulder.