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

Diversity & Inclusion

Worcester’s Latin American Health Alliance to split $3M for substance-use work

Worcester nonprofit Latin American Health Alliance is one of 20 BIPOC-led organizations receiving $2.9 million in grants from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to help fund efforts to address substance use in their communities disproportionately affected by increases in overdose.

Banking & Finance

Worcester biomedical firm raises $3M for development of pelvic treatments

Juniper Biomedical has raised $3 million in capital from a seed funding round, as well as the National Institutes of Health, to support its advancements in neuromodulation technology.

Arts & Entertainment

Clark granted $2M from Worcester foundations for media arts programs

Clark University has been granted $2 million in gifts from four Worcester foundations to amplify and drive learning and research within the university’s Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design.

Diversity & Inclusion

UMass Chan awarded $11.6M grant for new psychiatric nurse fellowship

Umass Chan Medical School’s Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing has been awarded a four-year $11.6-million grant by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services to help finance the university’s new psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners fellowship program.

Health Care

Four Worcester healthcare providers indicted for alleged Medicaid fraud scheme

Four Worcester individuals have been indicted for their alleged involvement in a local personal care attendant and home health Medicaid fraud scheme, according to a Monday announcement from the Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.

Arts & Entertainment

More Central Mass. businesses incorporated in January than any month since 2017

In January, more businesses were incorporated in Central Massachusetts than in any other month since at least January 2017, outpacing the state as a whole, which also set a record for new business starts.

Arts & Entertainment

Worcester artists, cultural organization granted $247K to grow programming

The Massachusetts Cultural Council has awarded 53 grants, totalling in $246,844, to help fund Worcester-based arts and cultural programs through the City’s Worcester Arts Council.

Manufacturing awards: Camelot Tools innovates to make manual labor easier and more effective

Creating a better mousetrap was Tony Cacela’s goal when he founded his excavation tool company, Camelot Tools. With two products available and more in the pipeline, he’s already seeing just how popular his designs could be.

Manufacturing awards: Saint-Gobain Abrasives centers innovation and community to promote longevity

Looking at the roughly 50 acres making up Saint-Gobain Abrasives’ industrial park in Worcester, it’s hard to imagine the company’s story began with a small startup in 1885, when seven entrepreneurs bought a grinding wheel patent from a local businessman.