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Rachel Jacobs was an American social entrepreneur. She was killed in the 2015 Philadelphia train derailment while commuting between her home in New York and the offices of the Philadelphia education start up she headed.[1][2][3]

Personal life

Jacobs grew up in Huntington Woods, Michigan.[4] She is the daughter of Gilda Jacobs, a former Michigan state senator.[2][5] She is a graduate of Berkley High School, a 1997 graduate of Swarthmore College, and a 2002 graduate of Columbia Business School.[4][6] Jacobs moved to New York City in 2000.[7]

Personal life

She was married to Todd Waldman; the couple had a son, Jacob, 2 years old at the time of her death.[5][8]

Career

Jacob's firm, ApprenNet, was cofounded by Karl Okamoto, a law professor at Drexel University.[2] The company "provides tools for instructors to create video-based learning exercises."[2][9][10]

In 2009 Jacobs and husband Todd Waldman co-founded Detroit Nation, a website dedicated to helping Detroit natives now living elsewhere keep connected to their hometown.[11][12][13][2][4][14][7][15] By the time the group held a Detroit ex-pats meet-up in their hometown in 2014, the group had 10,000 members online.[16] Detroit Nation raised money for Detroit charities with fund-raising events held by expats in Seattle, Chicago, New York and other cities.[11]

References

  1. ^ Shapira, Ian (13 May 2013). "CEO mom who went missing after the Amtrak crash now mourned as dead". Washington Post. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e Bethencourt, Daniel (14 May 2015). "Tech start-up CEO Rachel Jacobs among Amtrak crash victims". USAToday. Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  3. ^ Italiano, Laura (13 May 2015). "CEO still missing after Amtrak crash". New York Post. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Gottlieb, Amishai (13 May 2015). "Rachel Jacobs, Missing After Amtrak Derailment, Connected Jewishly". Jewish Exponent. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  5. ^ a b Blau, Reuven (13 May 2015). "Rachel Jacobs, daughter of former Michigan state senator, among 7 dead in Amtrak train derailment". New York Daily News. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  6. ^ Kampe, Paul (13 May 2015). "Huntington Woods native, daughter of former state senator dead in Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia". Tribune News. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  7. ^ a b Cannon, Lauren (28 September 2011). "On Urban Ex-Pat Networks in NYC". The L Magazine. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  8. ^ "Rachel Jacobs, Todd Waldman". New Castle News. 1 April 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  9. ^ Reyes, Juliana (6 April 2015). [ApprenNet just hired a new CEO. Here’s why that’s a big deal "http://technical.ly/philly/2015/04/06/apprennet-rachel-jacobs/"]. TechnicallyPhilly. Retrieved 14 May 2015. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help); External link in |title= (help)
  10. ^ O'Brien, Sara (13 May 2015). "Rachel Jacobs, the chief executive of a small tech company in Philadelphia, died in the Amtrak train crash, her family said Wednesday". CNN. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  11. ^ a b Cedo, Eric (14 May 2015). "Detroit lost one of its genuine champions in tragic death of Rachel Jacobs". Crain's. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  12. ^ "Rachel Jacobs Founder/Chairwoman, Detroit Nation". Crain's. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  13. ^ Wisley, John (14 May 2015). "Train crash victim Rachel Jacobs never forgot her roots". Detriot Free Press. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  14. ^ "Discover the D with Detroit Nation". The Detroit Jewish News. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  15. ^ "'Detroit Nation' Spreading Motor City Pride". CBS. 25 April 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  16. ^ Chambers, Jennifer (19 September 2014). "Detroit's expats say city has 'phenomenal ideas'". The Detroit News. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
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