Breakthrough Philadelphia Board of Directors
Officers
Ken Aldridge, Chair
Head of Middle School
Germantown Friends School
Karren DeSeve, Esq., Vice Chair
Attorney
Baumann, DeSeve & Landau
Baron Holland, Treasurer
Regional Vice President Business Banking
Citizens Bank
James Degnan, PhD, Secretary
Director, Measurement and Research Center
Temple University
Directors
Chetan Bagga
CEO
Education by Inclusion {ebi}
Michael Cascio
CEO
Maragold Enterprise, LLC
Anne-Marie Corner
CEO
ProTem Pharma
Jesse Dougherty
Director of Upper School
Friends Select School
Jean Fitzpatrick, MBA, PhD
Philanthropist
Susan Fleming
Philanthropist
Stephanie Haegley
Attorney
Madaline T. Janowski, CPA
Director, Tax Department
Asher & Company, Ltd.
Daniel Joyce, SJ
Assistant to the Vice President for Mission and Identity
Saint Joseph's University
David Kern
Director of Lower School
William Penn Charter School
Priscilla Kinney
Retired Teacher
Copperbeech School
William F. Lynch, Ph.D.
Dean, Goodwin College of Professional Studies
Drexel University
Martha E. Morse
Senior Analyst
Pembroke Philanthropy Advisors
Courtney Watkins Portlock
Director of Diversity and Community Life
Episcopal Academy
Ex-Officio Members
Dana Barron, PhD
Executive Director
Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia
Janice Biros, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Budget, Planning, and Administration
Drexel University
Valerie Dudley
Director of Institutional Diversity
Saint Joseph's University
Richard L. Wade
Head of School
Germantown Friends School
Breakthrough is the best thing that ever happened to me.
It helped me bring my grades up, change my outlook on school, and made me want to learn more.
- Brittany, Breakthrough Student
"Breakthrough impacted my life in so many ways;
it made me want to learn more, it brightened my path to success, and it taught me things I never knew."
Destiny, Class of 2014




