A 39 year old American social entrepreneur was one of eight women who were killed in 2015 when an Amtrak train travelling from Washington, D.C. to New York City derailed.
Rachel Jacobs (October 3, 1975  May 12, 2015) was an American social entrepreneur and CEO of a tech company. 
 She 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. 
On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak "Northeast Regional" train from Washington, D.C. bound for New York City derailed and wrecked on the Northeast Corridor in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
