Honoring Paul Kawata for his unwavering commitment to communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and work to end the HIV epidemic.

Paul Kawata's leadership advancing health equity for communities of color and the LGBTQ+ community. This resolution would honor Kawata for 38 years as executive director of NMAC and recognize his role shaping federal HIV responses, including the Minority AIDS Initiative and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. It highlights his work confronting systemic racism and homophobia, lifting up Black, Latino, Asian, Native American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities, and mentoring new leaders in the Asian-American, Pacific Islander, and LGBTQ movements. It thanks him and extends best wishes for his retirement.