[2] She initially attended the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York for one year before transferring to Harvard College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts (AB) in Economics.
[3][4] She started her career after college in the analyst training program at Salomon Brothers in New York ultimately becoming a reporter for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong.
[5] Fiorello also engaged as a line chef at Wallace Restaurant in New York and several entrepreneurial activities such as becoming an inventor of a storage bag design (U.S. patent holder) and former state director for a non-profit organization in education.
[9] Fiorello spoke on the House floor against legislation designed to make it easier to report instances of sexual misconduct on college campuses.
[11] Alan Cavagnaro, a sophomore at Manchester Community College, testified that many people his age are leaving the state because it was too expensive to live there.
[12] Fiorello's comments drew rebuke from Robyn Porter, a Black Representative from New Haven, who pushed back on Fiorello's comments by responding “the fact that Black people — men, women and children — were not seen as whole human beings for the purposes of taxation and representation, that is what the Three-Fifths Compromise was rooted and grounded in".