Caroline Spikner (she/her) is a licensed social worker, educator, and mover based in Chicago. Born and raised in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and Salt Lake City, Utah, she is the daughter of a Black Christian father and an Ashkenazi Jewish mother. Caroline holds a deep commitment to creating space for interfaith, multiracial, and mixed-identity experiences.

Caroline serves as curriculum and training specialist with Mitsui Collective, integrating her passions for embodied practice, racial justice, and Jewish life to develop learning resources rooted in equity, compassion, and belonging. She also works as a therapist at Thresholds, a community mental health agency, where she provides mental health and wellness services for young mothers.

Caroline earned her BA in Communication (Film and Dance) from Northwestern University and dual master’s degrees in Social Work and Nonprofit Management from Case Western Reserve University, where her work focused on community health, maternal healthcare, and program design. She began her professional journey as a Masa Israel Teaching Fellow and was introduced to curriculum design as a Springboard Innovation Fellow with Metro Chicago Hillel. In addition, Caroline has experience teaching dance and yoga in studio and community settings with focuses on creative movement, yoga for new movers, ballet, modern and jazz.

Her certifications include a 200-hour yoga teacher training, a 40-hour domestic violence training, and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention certification.