Doreen Zuno

Mrs. Zuno was raised in Baldwin Park, California. Her parents worked hard and sacrificed to have her and her two siblings attend St. John the Baptist Catholic School. Upon graduating from Sierra Vista High School, Mrs. Zuno attended California State University, Long Beach, with the aspiration of working with young children. She earned her Bachelor’s in Liberal Studies with a minor in Mathematics in 2002. Mrs. Zuno is a first generation college graduate. Greatly influenced by the principals in her career, she completed her Master’s Degree in Administrative Leadership at Loyola Marymount in 2018 while teaching 5th grade and raising her two sons.

She married a U.S. Marine in the early 2000’s who was stationed in Yuma, Arizona. After taking time off to raise her two sons, she started teaching in Somerton, Arizona, a small impoverished border town. She started her teaching career in first grade. After living in Arizona for eight years, Mrs. Zuno and her family returned to California in 2009. She resumed her educator journey with the Baldwin Park Unified School District and St. Frances of Rome as a substitute for preschool through fifth grade. After a few years of substituting she was offered a full-time teaching position as the fourth grade teacher at St. Frances of Rome and later became Blended Learning Coordinator and vice principal. Mrs. Zuno is now the principal of St. Frances of Rome.