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Rachel Spooner

Founder of Thrive College Coaching

Rachel Spooner is a professor who has spent her career dedicated to inspired teaching and advising students to success. She is the author of the book Tales from a Professor's Office: An Insider's Guide to Thriving in College. Rachel is an Associate Professor of the Practice in Business Law at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.  She currently teaches Business Law, Ethics, and Securities Regulation courses to undergraduate students. Before arriving at Boston College in 2019, Rachel was on the faculty at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, as well as a part-time adjunct at Boston University School of Law and Northeastern University Law School. Rachel also has experience teaching Executive and MBA students. She has been an advisor for thousands of students in a formal and an informal capacity over her nearly two decades in universities. In her role as a professor in the Portico program at Boston College, Rachel currently advises first-year students through their crucial transition to college.

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Rachel has been honored for her teaching and commitment to students by both undergraduates and the universities in which she teaches.  At Boston University she won both the Questrom Award for Faculty Excellence in Institutional Leadership, which was via nomination by faculty and selected by the Dean, as well as the Beckwith Award for Undergraduate Teaching, which is chosen by vote of undergraduate students. Since arriving at Boston College, Rachel has been recognized as a Teaching Star by the Dean of the Carroll School of Management for several semesters. She is a faculty member of Delta Sigma Pi, a business fraternity, and the LOCK Honorary Service Society at Boston University. Rachel has also been recognized for her scholarly research in pedagogical journals.

Rachel graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. After clerking for the Honorable William C. Conner in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Rachel worked in the Trial Department of Goodwin Procter LLP for five years, focusing on commercial, securities, and bankruptcy litigation, as well as doing extensive pro bono work for prisoners, indigent criminal defendants, and on a death penalty case.  

When she is not working with students, Rachel can be found watching college basketball with her husband and two children, walking her two french bulldogs, or reading.