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represented and undercovered ones. When
it happens that all the featured people in
a single edition are those who might have
been overlooked 10, 20, or 30 years ago, it
makes me happy.
– Brad Kane, editor
M
y photo appearing as
part of this column is
one of the very few of
a man you'll see in this
edition. is issue's
hyperfocus on female professionals wasn't
by design, but I do love it when things
like this happen.
From the start of this year, this edition
always was planned as the showcase for
WBJ's Outstanding Women in Business
award winners, so it stood to reason
people featured in the following pages
would be majority female. You can see
those profiles starting on page 10. How-
ever, as the WBJ newsroom staff started
developing the rest of the content for this
issue back in early September, it became
evident nearly all the featured subjects
would be women.
For the cover story, Staff Writer Mica
Kanner-Mascolo features an excellent
tale of perseverance and redemption in
her "Recovery" story starting on page 8.
Her story details the lives and work of the
leaders behind the former nonprofit Liv-
ing in Freedom Together, aer its founder
was forced out following a relapse and
its new leaders had to find a new path
forward. Over on page 6 in the "From hops
to hip checks" story, Staff Writer Eric Ca-
sey sat down with Kim Golinski, the new
president of the Worcester Railers, over her
plans for the upcoming hockey season.
In other content for this edition, I asked
the trade group Associated Industries of
Massachusetts if anyone wanted to write
a column about business confidence and
falling interest rates, and AIM's CEO and
board chair of economic advisors – both
women – raised their hands. eir work
appears in the Opinion section on page 29.
Female authors contributed all the advice
columns on Page 27 as well. To round out
this edition on page 30, attorney Brigid
Harrington from Bowditch & Dewey sat
down with WBJ Correspondent Sara Bedi-
gian to discuss how to support women in
the legal profession.
As a news organization, WBJ can't
dictate the gender of the people making
news every day. However, a point of pride
during my nine-year tenure as editor has
been WBJ's coverage of all aspects of the
Central Massachusetts business commu-
nity, particularly highlighting the under-
An ode to women making a difference
T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
4 Central Mass. In Brief
10 Focus on Outstanding Women in
Business awards
26 List: Largest woman-owned
businesses
27 Know How
28 Movers & Shakers
29 Opinion
29 Interest rate reduction signals a
shift in the post-COVID economy
Viewpoint opinion columnists Sara
Johnson and Brooke Thomson write
on how uncertainty is the calling card of an
economy in transition.
30 Q&A: From Manhattan to Harvard
to Bowditch
Bowditch & Dewey attorney Brigid
Harrington sits down with WBJ
Correspondent Sara Bedigian to discuss the
differences between the public and private
sectors, and how to encourage women in
the legal field.
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