Kate McEvoy
Then: Director of community relations for Fallon Community Health Plan, Worcester
Now: Vice president of corporate relations at UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester
Since 2002, McEvoy has been named a Worcester State University distinguished alumna and received the YWCA of Central Massachusetts’ Katharine F. Erskine Award, which recognizes women for their leadership. While at Fallon, McEvoy led the rebranding and development of sales and marketing functions for what is now its Summit ElderCare program, and ran the Fallon Foundation. From there, she led insurance company Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s office in Central Massachusetts as its vice president. McEvoy has been with UMass Memorial only since this spring but had already proven her prowess for community engagement. She co-chaired the 2018 UMass Winter Ball, which brought in $2 million, the most in the event’s decade-long history. – Profile by Grant Welker
What did 40 Under Forty mean to you? It meant a lot! The backstory is I worked at WBJ for years and kept pushing for Worcester to have a 40 Under Forty because publications in similar markets did (Hartford!), and Worcester was worthy of a recognition like that. The then WBJ editor would jokingly call our first 40 Under Forty edition the “Friends of Kate” issue. There was pent-up demand, that’s for sure.
What advice do you have for this year’s winners? Work hard. Look around you, and see the issues you can help to address.
The 40 Under Forty alumni Class of 2002
