In the wake of the dismantling of USAID, former USAID employee, Denise Mortimer, picked up a pencil and drew a sketch of her dog. What started as one sketch of her beloved dog, RocketBear, grew into a collection of more than 150 pets. Each one of her pet sketches represents a person who has lost […]
While I never expected my first job out of college to be in public service, the two years I spent working as an NIH fellow were the most transformative of my life. Walking out of Medical Center station onto campus for the first time, I felt nothing short of awe – and rightfully so. Embedded […]
One of the first people the Trump regime pushed out of the NIH was Dr. Lawrence Tabak, the longest-serving principal deputy director in the agency’s history. He was a stabilizing force and a deep source of institutional knowledge—but more than that, he was the best mentor I’ve ever had and one of the kindest people […]
I was at a park on Saturday, March 15, 2025, when I received an email blocking me and hundreds of Voice of America (VOA) journalists from the newsroom. It was a dark day for journalism. This year would have marked my 16th year with the agency, serving a mission I deeply believed in: delivering factual, […]
I’m an environmental scientist, and since I finished undergrad in 2018, it’s been my dream to work as a scientist in the US Geological Survey. I came back to Maryland for graduate school because I wanted to do work for the landscape and the people where I grew up. I felt that as a federal […]
A tribute written by a friend, Jessica Hauser (accessed on facebook): I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the […]
My daughter was accepted for a consult at NIH when she was small. I’ve never experienced a hospital remotely like it. The atmosphere pulsed with intelligence and hope, and the care was the most professional and compassionate I’d ever experienced. Three years later I accepted my dream job at the NIH Clinical Center. I loved […]
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