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and President of Life Sciences Solutions and Laboratory Products at Thermo Fisher Scientific, desired that this “HBCU Covid-19 Testing Initiative” be a partnership with Sigma Pi Phi and include Covid-19 testing for students, faculty and staff at HBCUs this academic year; the establishment of five test labs at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Howard University, Me- harry Medical College, Morehouse College and Tuskegee University; provide the opportunity for the preceding institutions “to publish and present findings to promote the development of safe work protocols;” and Thermo Fisher’s interest in the development of a partnership to hire 500 graduates of HBCUs over the next three years. Archon Lowery and I co-led a July 30 webinar with the invited institutional representatives and key members and officers of Thermo Fisher and Sigma Pi Phi, respectively. The project is going well and more than 40 percent of HBCUs are involved thus far.
I have also assisted Archon Tracy Porter of Epsilon Beta and Chair of the Grand Committee on Blacks on Corporate Boards with obtaining Archousa Alexis Herman, former U. S. Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, as a keynote panelist on the September 14 Sigma Pi Phi / EY Webi- nar on Blacks on Corporate Boards: Increasing Readiness and Representation in the Corporate Board Room. Secretary Herman is an alumna and former trustee of Xavier University of Louisiana, where I was a professor and administrator for more than 14 years.
I have also been invited to and attended the 2020 biennium meetings of the Grand Committee on HBCUs and Postsecondary Education Access, which is currently chaired by Archon Preston
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GRAND SIRE ARCHON–ELECT Antoine Garibaldi
Since the conclusion of the virtual 55th Grand Boulé on July 26 and in my new role as Grand Sire Archon–Elect, I have devoted the early months of the 2020-2022 Biennium supporting the initia- tives of Grand Sire Archon Dwayne Murray. In addition to attending several meetings of Grand Officers and the Grand Executive Committee, I have also joined the Grand Sire on meetings of Member Boulés and Regional Boulés, such as the Southeast Regional Social Action Committee meeting on September 2; the Webcast on Voter Protection Efforts on September 27; the Grand Sire’s Listening Sessions on Saturday mornings in October; and similar activities.
In the week following the Grand Boulé, Past Grand Sire Gregory Vincent and Grand Sire Murray requested my collaboration with Archon Douglas Bender of Beta Epsilon Boulé and Past Chair of the Grand Strategic Planning Committee on a propo- sed Covid-19 testing and research project that Ar- chon Frederick Lowery of Phi Boulé and Thermo Fisher Scientific was interested in pursuing with a select number of HBCUs and at no cost to the institutions. Archon Lowery, Senior Vice President