Arivee Vargas Biography
Arivee is a lawyer, podcast host, women’s certified executive coach, speaker, and mother of three. She’s the Founder of Humble Rising LLC, which aims to empower women professionals to realize their innate worth and harness their power to design a life and career unapologetically on their own terms. Arivee coaches women, and first-generation and women of color professionals in particular, at personal and professional inflection points get clear and confident about the direction they’re headed in and why, so they can experience more personal alignment, fulfillment and joy in their lives. Her book entitled Your Time to Rise: Unlearn Limiting Beliefs, Unlock Your Power and Unleash Your Truest Self will be released in January 2025.
Arivee is also the host of the Humble Rising Podcast, aiming to help women of color navigate our personal and professional lives by interviewing experts and inspirational women who share their stories and provide actionable strategies listeners can apply in their own lives. Arivee offers her own life and career coaching tips and strategies, including how she has navigated and has helped others through career and life transitions, placing self-care and wellbeing as a top priority, being a first-generation Latina, and juggling work and family.
Previously, Arivee was a litigator at two global law firms including the worlds’ largest law firm. She served as a law clerk at the federal district court for the first African-American woman federal judge in Massachusetts and for the first African-American woman judge on the First Circuit. Arivee also taught Business Law at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management as a lecturer for three years.
After practicing at a law firm, Arivee held several roles at a fast-paced, mission-driven biotech in Boston. She served as in-house counsel and the global head of the anti-bribery and anti-corruption program, among other roles in the Legal and Compliance department. Arivee later joined Human Resources, becoming the global head of employee relations. She then led senior leader development, executive coaching, and other initiatives focused on accelerating the growth of current and emerging senior leaders.
Arivee is passionate about serving her community. At Boston College, she serves as the Vice Chair of the AHANA (African-American, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian, Native American) Alumni Advisory Council, Vice President of the Alumni Association’s Board of Directors, and serves on the Women’s Council, and the Board of Regents. She also serves on Boston College’s Forum on Racial Justice in America. Arivee is a member of the Board of Trustees of Boston Preparatory Charter Public School, serving on the Governance Committee.
Arivee has been named a top coach in Boston for the past three years and has been featured in Boston College Magazine, Hispanic Executive Magazine, the Boston Business Journal, Forbes, and Success Magazine. She is the recipient of multiple awards and recognitions, including being honored as one of Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 (2020) and a Latina leader in Hispanic Executive magazine (2019).
Other select awards include the following: Excellence in the Law, Up & Coming Lawyer Honoree by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2013); Boston College John A. Dinneen, S.J. Hispanic Alumni Community Service Award (2014); Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star (2015); Philip J. Callan, Sr., Young Alumni Award, one of Boston College’s Distinguished Alumni Volunteer awards (2017); Boston College’s 40 under 40 Young Alumni Leaders (2017); and Boston College Law School’s Recent Graduate Award (2018).