Norval taught social studies at Morris High School in The Bronx and at Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem for 12 years, spent 3 years as the Upward Bound Program Counselor at Fordham University, taught Social Science at the School of New Resources of the College of New Rochelle for 5 years, and taught Public Speaking at Borough of Manhattan Community College for 15 years. He was also the director of College Now at CCNY from 2005 to 2016 and the director of the Urban Mentoring and Achievement Network (UMAAN), a CUNY Black Male Initiative project at CCNY, from 2016 to 2022. Norval has a B.A. in History from City College, an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Fordham University and an MA from the Study of the Americas program at the CCNY Center for Worker Education in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies. In his spare time, he roots for the New York Mets, Jets, and Knicks, writes songs on the piano and guitar, sings in a choir that presents music of the African-American sacred experience, participates in an amateur theater group, and occasionally frustrates himself on the golf course.