Panusart (Midnight) Poonkasetwattana is the executive director of APCOM Foundation, where he works to advance the rights, health, and well-being of people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

Midnight is passionate about social justice, social inclusion, and equity, particularly in terms of developing strong community-led and community- owned HIV responses and LGBTI rights programs.

Midnight’s current projects at APCOM Foundation include social media campaigns to promote HIV testing, regional data collection to improve health access for young people, and advocacy for economic inclusion of LGBTI people. Originally from a rural community in northeast Thailand, Midnight was honored to deliver the closing plenary statement at the 2016 High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS at the UN General Assembly.