Entry Career and Education
DiNapoli has been active in politics since he was a teenager, when he ran for and won a position as a representative to the Mineola Board of Education. At the age of 18 in 1972, he was the youngest person in New York State history to hold public office. He served on the school board for 10 years.
In 1976, DiNapoli graduated magna cum laude from Hofstra University with a bachelor's degree in history. After college he worked for New York Telephone.
In 1988, he received a master's degree in human resources management from The New School University's Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions.
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