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
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