NIH Vigil 3-28-2026

This Week’s Updates and Discussion

  • No (Shadow) Kings III Rally

  • Food drive to support unpaid TSA workers and other DHS shutdown-impacted communities

  • Music by Allstrike

  • Speakers

    • Nina Friedman, PhD candidate, UMD/NIH (emcee)

    • Michael Green, PhD, NIH grantee

    • Evan Glass, Montgomery County Council Member

    • Cara Pugliese, PhD, NIH staff

    • James Stroud, MS, statistician and FEMA worker

    • Laura Mata López, MSN, PhD candidate and NIH grantee

    • Bill Bien, lymphoma survivor and patient advocate

    • Anita Patel, MD, NIH grantee

    • Special Guest Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, former NIAID Director and current CEO of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    • Amber Lockridge, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, NIDDK/NIH

    • Anna Culbertson, BS, 27 UNIHTED Co-Founder

  • Oath of Office

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo addresses the crowd at the NIH vigil
A crowd of people at the top of the Metro escalator
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo speaks at the lectern
Allstrike performs at the vigil
The crowd of people attending the rally
The Allstrike punk band playing music
A person holding a protest sign that says "Save NIH, Save America, Save Science, Save Peace, Save Joy, Save Women, Save Voting"
A man speaks at the NIH vigil
A protest sign saying "eat the rich' and showing JD Vance as cake
A "fck RFK" protest signs with the NIH logo on a building in the background
Protest signs saying "King con" and "Maryland for crabs not kings"
A man speaks at the vigil
A protest sign that says "This is what democracy looks like"
Couple holding protest signs saying "No Kings, No Pedos" and "No Crown for the Clown"
A woman smiles at the camera while standing at the lectern to speak
Dr. Marrazzo speaking with a large view of the crowd surrounding her
A protestor holding a sign saying "Silence equals complicity"
An information table with a banner that says "HHS Saves Lives"
A group of protestors, one dressed as a unicorn and holding a sign saying "This is not normal"
Four people standing in front of the "graveyard" of tombstone-shaped protest signs
A protest sign showing an octopus holding an elephant and a donkey
Roadside protestors
coffee mugs on the merch table
A protest sign saying "Congress do your job"
The founder of 27 UNIHTED speaks into a microphone
A protest sign saying "Impeach the mad king and his jester Vance"
A man gestures while speaking into a microphone
A man speaks at the lectern
A woman speaks below the NIH logo
People facing a vigil speaker
A person in an inflatable unicorn costume, holding a protest sign saying "WWJD? Flipping Tables."
A group of roadside protestors holding signs saying "Arrest war criminals," "vaccines cause adults," and "hands off science"
A woman speaks at the vigil/rally
A protest sign saying "This is the government our founders warned us about"
Roadside protestors
A distant shot of the crowd outside the Medical Center Metro exit
The crowd at the NIH vigil
A sign that says "Fund science, fuck fascism"
Food drive boxes in front of an "HHS Saves Lives" banner
A bin of pins with 27 UNIHTED and NIH Vigils messages
A person holds a protest sign that says "Hate never made America great"
A protest sign saying "No kings, know science"
The founder of 27 UNIHTED speaks at the lectern
A member of the crowd holding an American flag
A child holding a "no Kings" protest sign
American flags among protest signs
A person holding a protest sign showing ICE agents with the caption "We defunded cancer research for this"
The graveyard of tombstone-shaped protest signs
A unicorn and a dinosaur walking away after the rally
Roadside protestors, including one in a flag costume and another holding an old flag
The crowd at the NIH vigil
A flag that says "We are the resistance"
A coffee mug and a T-shirt on a merch table
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