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Diversity & Inclusion
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2023 Power 50: Kaska Yawo
Updated: May 1, 2023Yawo has changed the landscape that immigrants and refugees to the Worcester area encounter when they arrive.
Updated: May 1, 2023
2023 Power 50: Joshua Croke
Updated: May 1, 2023Croke is the influential voice for the LGBTQ+ community across the Central Massachusetts region. As president of Love Your Labels, they lead the Queer Coalition of Greater Worcester and run programming across the area, including Drag Queen Story
Updated: May 1, 2023
2023 Power 50: Eric Batista
Updated: May 1, 2023In the second largest city in New England, the city manager is the municipality’s CEO, more powerful than the mayor. He oversees a $778-million budget and almost 8,000 employees.
Updated: May 1, 2023
Power 50: The most influential Central Mass. professionals in 2023
Updated: May 1, 2023Business professionals from organizations of all types and sizes hold some amount of power, but how you shape the economy and community is when you are truly influential.
Updated: May 1, 2023
Every WBJ Power 50 ever, through 2023
Updated: May 1, 2023Here’s all 264 professionals who has been named to a Power list & the year(s) they were listed.
Updated: May 1, 2023
2023 Power 50: Fred Taylor
Updated: May 1, 2023Fred Taylor gives Central Massachusetts a voice in one of the largest trade unions in the country, advocating for more than 30,000 members across the region.
Updated: May 1, 2023
2023 Power 50: Tuyet Tran
Updated: May 1, 2023The Southeast Asian Coalition of Central MA is the only organization of its kind in the region, and it was built from the ground up by and for Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees in Worcester. One of those was Tuyet Tran, then a young social
Updated: May 1, 2023
2023 Power 50: Jennie Lee Colosi
Updated: May 1, 2023Colosi is president of the 77-year-old E.T. & L. Corp., in Stow, which employs 133 people. She is a trained engineer and one of the only women presidents of a Central Massachusetts construction company.
Updated: May 1, 2023
City of Worcester to employ external firm in search for chief equity officer
April 18, 2023The City of Worcester is seeking an executive search firm to find the person who will become chief equity officer in the new executive office of diversity, equity and inclusion.
April 18, 2023
Diagnosing AI: Healthcare community excited, wary of artificial intelligence
Updated: April 17, 2023With the medical world on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution, researchers and clinicians are excited about the potential and wary of technology implicitly reliant on human bias
Updated: April 17, 2023
Central Mass. small businesses eligible for $78M from new grant programs
April 4, 2023Two new grant programs will make $78 million available to Massachusetts small business owners focusing on disadvantaged communities and movie theater owners.
April 4, 2023-
The next leader: Tran takes over at the Southeast Asian Coalition
Updated: April 3, 2023As the Southeast Asian Coalition settles into new digs, its executive director arrives with big ambitions for its role in the community.
Updated: April 3, 2023 
Artists selected to paint first Black portraits for Mechanics Hall installation
March 28, 2023The Worcester County Mechanics Association on Monday named the four artists who have been chosen to paint portraits of prominent 19th century Black abolitionists for its Great Hall gallery.
March 28, 2023
Assumption officially inaugurates Weiner as first Jewish president of U.S. Catholic university
March 24, 2023Nearly one year after he assumed the role in interim and five months after being officially appointed to the position, Greg Weiner was inaugurated as Assumption University’s 17th president on Thursday.
March 24, 2023
MBTA says $31M needed to offer low-fare option
March 24, 2023MBTA officials estimated Thursday it would need at least a year and about $5 million to get a widespread low-income fare option off the ground, plus tens of millions of dollars per year to cover its recurring costs.
March 24, 2023
Jamaican producer to take over as City of Worcester cultural development officer
March 24, 2023Jamaican film producer and theater manager Fabian Barracks will take over as the cultural development officer in Worcester on Monday.
March 24, 2023
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