Staff & Leadership

The Breakthrough Leadership Team is responsible for ensuring our network of schools is providing a sustainable, high-quality, college preparatory education to all our students. Comprised of leaders from throughout out network of schools, the Breakthrough Leadership Team works together to address our network's short-term and long-term strategic challenges and opportunities. The Breakthrough Leadership Team includes:

Alan Rosskamm
Chief Executive Officer, Breakthrough Schools

Charley Daane
Chief Financial Officer, Breakthrough Schools

Jill Miller
Chief Operating Officer, Breakthrough Schools

Cathy Whitehouse
Co-Founder & Chief Educator of The Intergenerational Schools

Brooke King
Executive Director of The Intergenerational Schools

Margaret Hirschfeld
School Model Leader of Citizens Academies

Shelly Saltzman
Co-Founder & Chief Educator, Citizens Leadership Academy

Kevin Alin
Associate Head of School, Citizens Leadership Academy

Jaclyn Stephens
Head of School, Village Prep - Cliffs Superior Campus 

John McBride
Head of School, E Prep - Cliffs Superior Campus 

Chad Webb
Head of School, Village Prep - Woodland Hills Campus 

Chris O'Brien
Head of School, E Prep - Woodland Hills Campus 

John Zitzner
Co-Founder of Breakthrough Schools & President of Friends of Breakthrough Schools

Susan Ertle
Executive Director, Friends of Breakthrough Schools