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Jaqueline “Jackie” Copeland
Lucy Motsay Rutishauser
Dr. Leana Wen
74, chair Maryland State Arts Council
The day Jackie Copeland resigned from Maryland’s largest Black museum last summer during
a tumultuous leadership shake-up, her cellphone
began ringing. It hasn’t stopped since. Copeland
may have lost her “dream job” as executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland
African American History & Culture but, she isn’t
the type to mope. On July 1 she became chairwoman of the Maryland State Arts Council, which
since the pandemic began has awarded more
than $12 million in emergency funds to more
than 1,645 artists and cultural groups.
“COVID-19 has made us realize how important
the arts are,” Copeland said. “They bring people
together. They are chroniclers of our culture. In
good times and bad, the arts are always there for
us.”
— Mary Carole McCauley
56, chief financial officer, Sinclair Broadcast
Group
Lucy Motsay Rutishauser helped close Sinclair’s $10.6 billion acquisition of 21 Fox regional
sports networks in 2019. Then the pandemic shut
down live sports. Still, one of the Fortune 500’s few
female CFOs kept the TV broadcaster’s growth on
track. Advertising revenues and local sports viewership have improved on Bally Sports networks,
all rebranded through a partnership with the
gaming company. Next up, a direct-to-consumer
“gamification” app will let fans interact and wager through Bally Bet.
Sinclair news stations have continued investigating public education in Baltimore and homelessness in Seattle, bringing “important topics to
the forefront for discussion … We have a lot of
good things that are taking place as the economy
rebounds.”
— Lorraine Mirabella
38, physician, op-ed columnist with The
Washington Post and a CNN medical analyst
Former Baltimore health commissioner Dr.
Leana Wen was contemplating a guide to public
health when the coronavirus pandemic hit. It
became the backbone for the just-released “Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public
Health,” and helped Wen understand how the
field needed to adapt. “While the pandemic is by
no means over,” she said, “there is a need to reimagine what public health can and should look
like going forward. In addition to helping to navigate these challenging times, I’m also focused on
laying the groundwork for this undertaking.”
— Meredith Cohn
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