2025 Power 100: Debbie Hall

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Photo | Matt Wright Debbie Hall, CEO of YWCA Central Massachusetts

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Debbie Hall Title CEO Company YWCA Central Massachusetts, in Worcester Employees 200 Residence Worcester Colleges Washington University, Worcester State University Read all the 2025 Power 100 profiles here
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Working to help eliminate racism and empowering women are two monumental lifts, but Hall is up to the task. In pursuit of these two pillars of the YWCA Central Massachusetts, Hall centers her commitments to community, equity, and meaningful impact as she leads an organization providing assistance including transitional and emergency housing, early education, and domestic violence support services.

After assuming her executive role in 2021, Hall later became the YWCA’s first Black CEO and has been dedicated to ensuring the financial stability of the nonprofit. Last year, the YWCA was able to function without borrowing from its line of credit or drawing from its endowment, building off the momentum of the YWCA’s fiscal 2023 revenue of $10.12 million.

Bringing her reach to a governmental level, Hall was appointed in September to the state’s Cultural Economy Advisory Council as one of its 18 inaugural members and the sole member from Central Massachusetts. In her role, Hall and her co-councillors will work to strengthen Massachusetts’ creative economy.

Hall continues to run the Worcester Black History Project, an organization she established in 2018 to uncover and honor the legacies of the city’s Black individuals whose stories have been lost to history.

Mica Kanner-Mascolo is a staff writer at Worcester Business Journal, who primarily covers the healthcare and diversity, equity, and inclusion industries.