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

2025 Power 100: Michael London

London has mastered growing a tech company better than almost every other company in the U.S.

2025 Power 100: Chelsey Patriss

Patriss had never imagined herself in a public health career when she joined the Health Equity Partnership, but here she is, 11 years later, standing at the head of a nonprofit becoming all the more important in a region where healthcare options are declining.

2025 Power 100: Amie Shei

Shei addresses the nuanced and complicated need for health equity by using an intersectional and holistic approach as she tirelessly advocates for those who don’t have a seat at the table. In February, she was honored as Massachusetts Woman of the Year 2025 by USA Today.

2025 Power 100: Rozanna Penney

Penney has turned around the sinking ship that was Heywood Healthcare and today, the once-floundering system is breathing a sigh of relief.

2025 Power 100: Dr. Cherise Hamblin

As maternal morbidity rates continue to rise throughout the state, Hamblin has become one of the region’s most ardent advocates for the interrelated causes of addressing Black maternal health and diversifying healthcare professionals.

2025 Power 100: Dr. Eric Dickson

When Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer was about to close in the summer of 2024, Dickson said he was looking into every opportunity possible to support the region left without its most central hospital.

2025 Power 100: Louis Brady

As CEO, Brady has brought FHCW, the region’s largest federally qualified health center, back from the financial brink it was tiptoing off of just three years ago.

2025 Power 100: Stephen Kerrigan

Few leaders in Central Massachusetts fight as fiercely to provide health care regardless of an individual’s ability to pay like Kerrigan, and this past year, he set records.

2025 Power 100: Kurt Isaacson

As Central Massachusetts continues to reel from the impacts of the ongoing opioid epidemic, Isaacson has leveraged his position as the head of Spectrum to provide services to as many patients as possible in as many locations as possible.

2025 Power 100: Manny Lopes

In July, Lopes stepped into his role leading Central Massachusetts’ seventh largest health insurer and one of its largest employers, mere months before the President Donald Trump Administration began mulling over plans to cut billions in Medicaid funding.

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