Tae Chaney
Tae Chaney is a Supervisor and Senior Program Specialist within the Division of Police and has been with the NIH for 16 years. In this role she supports the Chief of Police and the Deputy Chief with managing the budget, administrative tasks, and supporting the administrative branch. She is from Uniontown, Pennsylvania and moved to the DMV area when she was 13 years old. Tae first learned about the NIH through her father who also retired from the NIH.
One of her favorite projects has been serving as a Contracting Officer Representative over the Security Guard contract with Paragon. She has served as a COR III for 15 years. In this role she operated as a resource guide for 574 guards.
She enjoys working in the community and has a passion for mentoring and supporting young African American men that are searching for guidance as they matriculate through society. In addition, she always wants to set a good example for her son, family, and those who look up to her. As a hobby she enjoys crocheting and she also has two additional businesses as well.
Her favorite artist to listen to is Luther Vandross and she enjoys Terry McMillan books.
“I'm just a down to earth individual. I'm very organic and very loving. And I think that if people would take the time to take off the filter of judgement the world would be a better place."
Valerie Martini
Valerie Martini is the Immigration Policy Analyst at the Division of International Services (DIS) at NIH. The Division of International Services provides resources and assistance for Foreign National Scientists. In this role Valerie assists the director in providing services and outreach for stakeholders as well as analyzing policy and regulation. One of her favorite projects has been when she developed a continuity operations plan for her division. The plan created centered on how DIS would respond during an emergency. The plan she created eventually became a template for other clusters and divisions within ORS to follow.
The proudest moment of her career is when she worked with the DIS director during the pandemic. They spent time looking at the logistics of how they onboarded new staff. They worked to ensure that that the transition for new staff was a smooth process during a time when campus activity was very limited. The processes adapted and utilized were also eventually shared with additional clusters.
She's motivated everyday by the reality that the work she and her team does positively impacts the NIH community daily. She feels that there is purpose behind what she does and loves to see the impact play out in real time.
She enjoys spending time with husband, their three young children, and their dog Rufus. She is originally from Unadilla New York.
Erina He
Erina He works within the Medical Arts Branch as a Medical Illustrator. In this role, she gets to put on her creative hat to construct visual displays and graphics for various divisions at NIH. Many times, Erina is the go-to person for artwork when there are new publications released.
“I get to work on illustrations to depict something that nobody else has ever seen before."
He's favorite part of her job is knowing that she makes a global impact with her work. She loves that her content can be seen all around the campus but also seen in journals and publications that are viewed by people all over the world. Her projects are often tied to improving the lives of patients as well as the overall wellbeing of the general public.
The proudest moment of her career has been working at the NIH. While in high school she discovered her love of the sciences and graphic design. Around that same time, she also learned about the work taking place at the NIH.
“I got really lucky landing into my dream job."
She is originally from China and has lived all around the world including places like Japan and Canada.
