Katie Phang

That means you're a fan, you're a fan, you're a fan, you're a fan.

Go ahead and keep on standing me.

Keep on standing me, because I don't know who the hell you are, but you know me.

Hallelujah.

Keep on being my fan.

Coming to the stage is the great Chris Van Hollen, Senator Chris Van Hollen of the great state of Maryland.

He'll be joined by Jenna Norton, a public health scientist focused on health equity and data standards to improve health outcomes in kidney and urologic diseases.

She was a lead organizer of the Bethesda Declaration, a whistleblower letter to the NIH director and members of Congress detailing this harm.

In November 2025, she was placed on retaliatory administrative leave

So you're going to want to give her a major round of applause.

Senator Van Hollen.

Thank you, Senator Van Hollen.

I'm so honored to be here today speaking up with so many other brave people in my personal capacity.

As Senator Van Hollen noted, in November of 2025, I was placed on administrative leave from the job that I loved at the National Institutes of Health because I blew the whistle on the wrongdoing that I saw there.

The Trump administration put research participants and public health at risk by

Is that better?

So thank you, Senator Van Hollen, and thank you for letting me know that you couldn't hear me.

I am very honored to be here today with all of the brave folks who have been speaking up, and I am here in my personal capacity.

So as Senator Van Hollen noted, I was placed on administrative leave in November of last year because I spoke up

about the wrongdoing that I was seeing in a job that I used to love at the National Institutes of Health until it was fundamentally changed.