Early Life and Career
Gioia attended PS11 Queens, a public elementary school. He worked in his family's florist shop in Woodside, Queens, which has been in operation for more than a century. He attended St. Francis Preparatory School, New York University and Georgetown University Law Center. He worked his way through NYU as a janitor/elevator operator, and member of Service Employees International Union/SEIU-Local 32BJ. He worked as a law clerk in the White House under President Bill Clinton. He worked in private practice in Manhattan at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, and later and on Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000.
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