Zeus Rodriguez — Official

Zeus Rodriguez is the founder and strategic lead of Virtualis Classical Online School and co-founder of Vitae Catholica — two national initiatives advancing classical education and Catholic, family-centered healthcare.

Virtualis is a K–12 online classical academy that partners with parents to restore authentic formation, objective truth, and educational freedom. Rooted in the Western tradition and governed by families, Virtualis offers an alternative to the modern school system by returning moral and intellectual formation to the hands of those to whom it was entrusted by God — parents.

Vitae Catholica, co-founded with his wife Professor Dana Rodriguez, PhD, is a Catholic pediatric health and development organization providing ESA-funded services, family telehealth, and a groundbreaking K–12 health formation curriculum. Integrating medicine, theology, and human dignity, Vitae Catholica supports parents as the primary stewards of their children's bodies, minds, and souls — serving both special-needs and typically developing students through an unapologetically Catholic vision of care.

Zeus is a trusted advisor in education reform, school administration, non-profit management, institutional advancement, Latino community development, and political advocacy. In 2009 he founded Hispanics for School Choice to inform and represent Latino families on the issues of parental school choice.

He previously served as president of St. Anthony School in Milwaukee — at the time, the largest K–12 Catholic school in the nation. Under his leadership, St. Anthony expanded to include a full high school, a five-star early childhood education program, onsite pediatric health care services, and additional programs and improvements.

In addition to his work in education, Zeus served as the Milwaukee chapter president of the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders, and on other community boards on behalf of the mayor and county executive of Milwaukee.

He has been a political opinion contributor for The Hill newspaper and has been featured in local, national, and international publications and television.

Zeus and Dana co-founded Padre Pio Clinic, the nation's first independent faith/school-based health care center (at St. Anthony School), to provide care for the community's most underserved.

A U.S. Navy veteran and certified Cardio-Thoracic Surgical First Assistant, Zeus currently pursues an MA in Theology at Holy Apostles College & Seminary. Before moving to San Diego in 2023, his family was based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he served on multiple boards including the Arizona Chamber Foundation and First Things First — East Maricopa Regional Council.