Alliance College-Ready Public Schools CEO and leadership

Dan Katzir is a President & CEO at Alliance College-Ready Public Schools and is based in West Hollywood, California. He has worked as Managing Director at The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and Senior Advisor at The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. Dan studied at DQ Entertainment and DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

Visionary, innovative and values driven leader committed to serving historically underserved and marginalized communities. Seven years experience as a school site administrator in the Bronx, NY (five in the principalship) and six additional years as an executive systems leader in both traditional districts and charter management organizations.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, his drive to bridge the educational inequities in our broader educational system stem from his own experience. Like many children of immigrants, Pablo was underserved in low-performing urban schools in East LA. The stark contrast of his primary education with that of his high school in a suburb of LA convinced him that ALL students deserve a quality education regardless of their ZIP Code.

He attended the University of California, Berkeley as an EOP scholar and earned a masters degree in Dual Language/Bilingual Education from the Bank Street College of Education. He now proudly serves his own East LA community and the greater Los Angeles region overseeing 28 secondary schools and a team focused on school leader supervision and development, social-emotional learning, school culture, governance and compliance.

Ana Menezes oversees the Teacher Training Department, which works to develop and execute trainings to make teachers great. Previously, as a Partner for New Teacher Effectiveness, Ana oversaw Teaching Fellows contracts in Louisiana, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and Denver. She worked with district and charter school clients and managed site-based staff to ensure high-quality program results. Ana joined TNTP as the Site Manager for TNTP's teachNOLA program, where she recruited and trained over 200 talented teachers for New Orleans public schools. Ana began her career in urban education as a Teach For America corps member and elementary teacher in New York City. She holds a MA in Education Policy from Stanford University and a BA in Political Science from Boston College. In 2011, Ana was profiled in Education Week as ''one of 16 young people who are going to transform education over the next decade.''

David Lauck is a Chief Business Officer at Alliance College-Ready Public Schools and is based in Greater Los Angeles Area. He has worked as Director of Finance at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy, Chief Financial Officer at Rhode Island Mayoral Academies, and Director of Finance & Accounting at KIPP SoCal Public Schools. David attended University of Virginia between 1992 and 1996 and University of Virginia Darden School of Business between 1999 and 2001.

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