[3] He lived in Peru for nineteen years,[4] before he and his family immigrated to the United States in 1969, settling in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
[5][6] Reinoso taught social studies in two languages at Warren Harding High School for fourteen years.
[6] Starting in 1989, he served as founding director of the Saturday Hispanic Academy in Science at Sacred Heart University.
[7][9] In 2005, Reinoso completed a master's degree in public administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
[5][10] Reinoso first won election as a representative of state house district 130 in November 2000,[5][11] unseating Díaz.