[4] After graduating college, he volunteered for the Peace Corps and served in India before joining the Department of State.

[5] In 2009 he was given the State Department's Charles E. Cobb Jr. Award for Initiative and Success in Trade Development in recognition of his work in Rwanda.

Arietti's father served in the Marine Corps during World War II[7] and the couple were married on November 20, 1945 in California.

[8] The couple moved back near his father's family in Connecticut in 1948.

His mother was the first female police officer in Enfield, Connecticut.