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: 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.

2025 Power 100: Susan Gentili

Since stepping into her CEO position at SMOC in 2021, Gentili has set all systems go to provide supportive services and housing assistance to those whose needs have fallen through the cracks.

2025 Power 100: Debbie Hall

Working to help eliminate racism and empowering women are two monumental lifts, but Hall is up to the task.

2025 Power 100: Marlina Duncan

Throughout her four years at UMass Chan, Duncan has focused on affirming that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not merely add-ons for the university, but foundational tenets on which it educates, delivers care, and conducts research.

2025 Power 100: David Fithian

Amid the federal government’s crackdown on immigration, Fithian quickly made himself a leading voice among institutions of higher education, making his support for his international students clear and adding Clark to the amicus brief in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, a federal case contesting the government’s visa revocation and detention of students.

2025 Power 100: Bhaskar Panigrahi

Panigrahi leads the charge of ConnectM, which in August was named the second-fastest growing company in Central Massachusetts and the 104th in the nation in Inc. magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies