The Journey Forward

Meet Caroline Hill, Founder

Caroline’s work is rooted in more than 20 years of experience in public education, education innovation, management consulting, and engineering. She has lived the life cycle of school creation and transformation as a teacher, mentor, coach, founding principal, and investor in innovative school models. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, a Master of Education in Learning and Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Master of Science in Administration through New Leaders for New Schools, a principal training fellowship.

Caroline founded 228 Accelerator with the intent to redesign the relationships that normalize oppression and to accelerate the journey toward a more inclusive society. She explores innovative organizations and learning models that optimize the role of relationships, leverage technologies, and engage people as agents in their own transformation. 

Meet Our Journey Agents

  • As an educational leader in Washington, DC, Angela opened two schools to target under-served and marginalized communities, an all-girls middle school in Anacostia and an alternative school for Opportunity Youth. Engaging these challenging populations requires expertise in empathy and innovation, and demands adaptive, responsive, and supportive leadership. During her tenure as a principal, Angela retained approximately 93% of her staff each year. Old and new teachers alike remained committed to the school due to her commitment to their professional development and growth. This investment in human capital always pays off and has become a cornerstone of Angela’s leadership.

    Angela believes it’s possible to reimagine schools, increasing equity from the inside out—she’s convinced that schools should work from and through the margins to influence the center of education and permanently alter academic norms.

    Twelve years in leadership and incubation are not easy, but the support of various fellowships, organizations, and partnerships made success much more attainable for Angela. Her career was built on relationships, honesty, and feedback. As Angela moves from executive leadership into leadership and school development, this trend continues, cultivating partnerships of introspection and personal growth that lead to innovative schools, a dynamic staff, and engaged students.

    Personally, Angela delights in laughter and learning, and thinks the two are closely related. She lives with her wife in Northeast DC and enjoys biking and Bob’s Burgers.

  • With 17 years of experience in district, charter, and nonprofit settings, Miki is an experienced leader in the education sector in Philadelphia. She is currently the Manager of Leadership Recruitment for the School District of Philadelphia, managing all school-based and central office leadership recruitment, selection, and hiring. Prior to joining the School District of Philadelphia, she was at the Philadelphia School Partnership as the Director of Talent & Collaboration and an Investment Associate. She was also a teacher and teacher leader for 10 years. She holds a Level II certification in K-12 mathematics as well as a certification in Educational Administration.

    Miki is an alumna of the Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Honors College, Saint Joseph’s University, and Chestnut Hill College. She is also involved with education outside of work as the board president of Inspiring Minds, a nonprofit that provides services to under-represented youth in grades K-12 through after-school and summer programming. She is passionate about impact through education and is motivated by a mission of service to others.

    Miki is a strong communicator with the confidence and ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, including students and families, district and school leaders, C-level suite executives and funding partners. She is passionate about building community, with a natural ability for bringing diverse voices to the table. She values and champions diversity, inclusion, and equity in the workplace and broader society. She loves love, and shares that love with her family, friends, cats, and the world.

  • Rahcyne is a cross-sector strategist who is not afraid to delve into the details. Her public and private sector experience has afforded her the ability to balance business principles and social priorities while keeping the focus on customer needs.

    Particularly effective in matrixed environments and in organizations experiencing change, Rahcyne is an intellectually curious problem solver. Her results orientation and analytical frame has been cultivated through her more than 20-year career in the chemical, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and education industries.

    Rahcyne holds a Master of Business Administration from Duke University, a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. She is also an alumna of Education Pioneers, an organization that cultivates talent from diverse industries to solve problems in education.

  • Jonathan is a coach, facilitator, designer, organizer, systems-change partner, uncle, and pilot. He brings all these qualities to the room when he works with leaders, teams, and organizations.

    Jonathan spent the last decade as a community organizer, capacity builder, and nonprofit leader in various states, including growing Leadership for Educational Equity’s civic leadership development and community organizing work in New England. Recognizing the challenges nonprofits and community organizations face in the field, he pivoted to Philanthropy where he worked as a Senior Manager for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Education Initiative leading their inclusive design and capacity building efforts, aimed at shifting how we build more participatory grantmaking and product development both for ourselves and in the field.

    Recently, Jonathan started a practice called Dahmos, a play on "Dahim" in Persian and "Damos" in Spanish, meaning “We Give.” An approach to philanthropy, technology, and non-profit work, providing consulting and training to various organizations.

  • Andre is an educator, leader, innovator, and edupreneur. Prior to moving to Washington D.C., he spent eight years teaching in Chicago, Illinois as a middle school teacher. He is the founder of House of Legends, a future school project that centers healing and the needs of students of color who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. He started the process in Chicago, Illinois and has continued to iterate the model in DC with DC CityBridge. The foundation of Andre’s work has always been relationship building with students and families, innovation in the classroom, student leadership, identity, and curriculum design. Over his career, he has won multiple awards for excellence in teaching and culturally responsive practices including Illinois State Teacher of the Year Finalist in 2016 and Teach for America Chicago's Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award in 2018.

    Andre holds a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies with a minor in Urban Education from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. The following year, he received his Master of Science in Elementary Education from the Graduate School of Education at UPenn.

    Immediately after, he joined Teach for America Chicago-Northwest Indiana in 2013. In the summer of 2021, Andre began a doctoral program in Educational Leadership also with the Graduate School of Education at UPenn.