Rachel Jacobs was an American businesswoman and social entrepreneur.
10 Facts About Rachel Jacobs
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Rachel Jacobs was killed at age 39 in the 2015 Philadelphia train derailment while commuting between her home in New York and the Philadelphia offices of ApprenNet, the educational technology company she had recently joined as CEO.
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Rachel Jacobs was a 1993 graduate of Berkley High School, a 1997 graduate of Swarthmore College, and a 2002 graduate of Columbia Business School.
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Rachel Jacobs was CEO of ApprenNet, a video-learning tech company which was cofounded by Karl Okamoto, a law professor at Drexel University.
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Rachel Jacobs next worked for the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy.
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Rachel Jacobs was hired to lead ApprenNet, which is backed by the National Science Foundation, in an expansion from its original focus on educating lawyers, into a phase to apply its online teaching technology to training health-care professionals, college level instruction and training for K-12 teachers.
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In 2014, Rachel Jacobs was one of 150 business leaders invited to attend the first annual Detroit Homecoming.
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Rachel Jacobs was married to Todd Waldman, who as of 2015 worked for Navigant Consulting; the couple had one son.
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ApprenNet co-founder and COO Emily Foote went to the crash scene to try to locate Rachel Jacobs by showing her photograph to survivors and rescue workers.
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Rachel Jacobs often spoke to others about how her camp experiences help shape her identity during her formative years.