Speaking at The Georgetowner’s Oct. 24 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, Ryan Brown, artistic director of Opera Lafayette, commented on the coincidental link between the event’s venue, the President Woodrow Wilson House on S Street NW, and the medal he wore. Brown had been awarded the Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel in 2012 by La Renaissance Française, an organization founded in France during Wilson’s presidency to strengthen and extend French culture in the wake of World War I.Read the article about Ryan Brown in The Georgetowner.