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Diversity & Inclusion
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2024 Power 100: Danielle Spring and Julie Toupin-Spring
Updated: April 29, 2024Although it is a lesbian bar, Femme is open to everyone and seeks to be a safe space at a time when the LGBTQ+ community is increasingly under fire locally and nationally.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Jennifer Julien Gaskin
Updated: April 29, 2024As the main organizer behind the Worcester Caribbean American Carnival Association, Jennifer Julien Gaskin brings the increasingly popular festival into the mainstream.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Greg Weiner
Updated: April 29, 2024When three leaders of the country’s top universities were castigated for failing to call out antisemitism during a Congressional hearing, Greg Weiner, the nation’s first Jewish president of a Catholic college, felt compelled to comment.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Brian Gibbs
Updated: April 29, 2024Gibbs joined UMass Memorial as the hospital system’s inaugural vice president and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer in 2020, selected from a nationwide search.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Pete Dunn
Updated: April 29, 2024“My interest in building institutions and supporting the growth of community philanthropy coincided with GWCF's needs here,” Dunn said.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Barry Maloney
Updated: April 29, 2024As the higher education industry struggles with falling enrollment, Worcester State University is bucking the trend.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Steve Kerrigan
Updated: April 29, 2024Just three years after joining the health center, Kerrigan reported in his 2022 “From the Desk” letter it had provided care to a then record-breaking 31,356 patients in 85 languages, issuing 137,707 prescriptions.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham
Updated: April 29, 2024Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham gives major Central Massachusetts employers the tools, motivation, and accountability they need to meet the promises they made following the 2020 police murder of George Floyd. She founded Promoting Good as she saw this as an
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Andrea Bazarian
Updated: April 29, 2024For 20 years, Nativity School of Worcester has been providing a Jesuit middle-school education free to underserved boys of all faiths. Now, Andrea Bazarian is about to open the school to the other half of the population.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Adriana Vaccaro
Updated: April 29, 2024After founding Culture Redesigned in 2018 in Shrewsbury, Adriana Vaccaro is at the forefront of a small, new wave of entrepreneurs and businesses in Central Mass. helping companies fill their job vacancies amid the ongoing workforce shortage while
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Joseph Corazzini
Updated: April 29, 2024Joseph Corazzini had big shoes to fill when he stepped into his role in November 2021, and now the university’s long-held positive relationship with the low-income Main South neighborhood hangs in the balance.
Updated: April 29, 2024
Seventh annual Latin American Business Expo to be held at DCU Center
April 26, 2024With the theme of launch, grow and thrive, the Latin American Business Organization’s seventh annual Latin American Business Expo will be held Saturday to highlight the efforts of Latinos, women, and minority-owned businesses.
April 26, 2024
Clinton cannabis delivery firm expands services as industry awaits driver rule change
April 22, 2024Current rules require two employees to be in any vehicle that is transporting cannabis, but commissioners voted in December three to one to approve a change to eliminate that requirement. Business owners are waiting for the commission to formally
April 22, 2024
Worcester earmarks $500K from Polar Park settlement for new diverse business grants
April 19, 2024The City of Worcester is now offering $5,000 grants to women and minority-owned businesses through its newly launched Diverse Business Certification Grant Program.
April 19, 2024
Worcester Regional Transit Authority to extend free rides through June 2025
April 18, 2024Worcester area residents can look forward to yet another year of fare-free bus rides as the Worcester Regional Transit Authority board voted to extend the gratuitous service for the fifth consecutive year.
April 18, 2024
WPI receives slice of $2.8M women’s health grants for bipolar treatment development
April 17, 2024Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute professors are amongst 10 project awardees receiving $2.8 million in grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to support their research advancing women’s health outcomes.
April 17, 2024
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