Lorene Morris

Founder and President

Lorene Morris, MPS, is the Founder and serves as the President of Transitional Bridges. She has extensive experience in the health and human services field. Throughout her career, she has worked collaboratively with clinicians and assisted patients and caregivers in securing necessary resources while navigating through complex systems to obtain vital services and benefits. Ms. Morris later branched out into disease-specific organizations, including the American Cancer Society (ACS) and American Heart Association (AHA). While at the ACS, she focused on impacting systemic change to improve health outcomes for patients with cancer in collaboration with cancer treatment centers. During her tenure at the AHA, efforts supported a statewide initiative to advance pre-hospital response to St-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and other systemic initiatives designed to improve cardiovascular outcomes. She has extensive experience in grant writing and grant management in the area of health and palliative care.

Fueled with an innate passion for assisting others and motivated to improve the end-of-life experience for family members, Transitional Bridges was formed. Lorene loves the fine arts and creating works of art in various mediums. Cooking, travel, and comedy are some of her favorite things to do. A resident of Southern California, she lives with her husband and two temperamental felines.

Sharon Zornes

Treasurer

Sharon Zornes, CPA, has been a California Certified Public Accountant for over 40 years. She worked for several years for a regional CPA firm located in Newport Beach, specializing in taxation. After starting a family, Sharon and her husband relocated to Fallbrook. Here she worked as a Controller in the hospitality industry for timeshare associations. She managed the financial reporting for twelve owners associations, with annual budgets over $80 million and servicing over 45,000 owners. Her professional experience includes financial reporting for non-profits, corporate tax compliance, property and sales tax compliance, cash management, and fiscal budgeting. Upon retirement in 2017, Sharon applied for and completed the UCCE Master Gardener program. She is currently active in that non-profit organization, which focuses on providing scientific-based agricultural information to the home gardening community. She currently volunteers her time serving on the Grants Committee, School Garden committee, and developing a Master Gardener plot in a local community garden.