My name is Maria Genao-Duran and I have been working for the New York City Department of Education for 33 years. I am currently an assistant principal at District 20 Pre-K Centers. I fell into education after working as a substitute one year. When I first started college my intent was to study law. I took a cinema class and fell in love with it and changed my major. Of course my family wasn’t too happy but they supported me. I ended up with a minor in political science and a