Mica Kanner-Mascolo

mkannermascolo@wbjournal.com

Mica Kanner-Mascolo covers health care and diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Worcester Business Journal. Her freelance writing has been featured in publications including FEMINIST, Byrdie, and Spare Change News. Mica is a graduate of The New School where she studied creative writing. An East Coast native, Mica currently resides in Central Massachusetts.

Covers: Health care and diversity, equity, and inclusion

Economy

Greater Worcester unemployment fell again in April

Greater Worcester’s unemployment rate continued to dip in April, further reversing the region’s six-month trend of steadily climbing rates.

Banking & Finance

Following Nasdaq delisting, ConnectM finalizes $1.4M purchase of India-based energy company

ConnectM Technology Solutions has completed a $1.4 million acquisition of Cambridge Energy Resources.

2025 Power 100: Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham

Zolezzi-Wyndham has been the leading diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant for major Central Massachusetts employers for five years, and now she is helping those firms who remain committed to those values navigate the white-hot political landscape where DEI is being labeled as a dirty word.

2025 Power 100: Todd Brodeur

Brodeur assumed his presidential role at Fletcher Tilton in March after spending his entire professional career with the firm.

2025 Power 100: Peter Li & Jean Qiu

Li and Qiu founded Conifer after seeing how new entrepreneurs had the intellect to create products but lacked the business knowledge to develop a thriving startup.

2025 Power 100: Kathleen Jordan

After a nearly 20-years tenure with Seven Hills, Jordan assumed her position as leader of Central Massachusetts’ largest human services nonprofit in 2023, as the region continued to reel from strained clinical, mental, and behavioral health systems post-COVID.

2025 Power 100: Mike Hyland

Hyland has led one of the region’s largest human services nonprofits for more than a decade and has continued to grow Venture’s presence to support as many individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism as possible across its service reach of 30 cities and towns.

2025 Power 100: Joshua Croke

Croke has established themselves as not only a safe-space maker for the LGBTQ+ community, but as a leader for municipal change.

2025 Power 100: Liz Hamilton

She leads the 136-year-old nonprofit by centering partnership and empathy as she works to grow its programming, which reaches 8,000 youth annually.

2025 Power 100: Diane Gould

After joining Advocates more than 40 years ago as a program manager, Gould assumed her leading role as CEO in 2013 and has worked to expand the nonprofit’s reach to now serve more than 40,000 individuals with development disabilities, brain injuries, and mental health challenges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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