Whitman-Walker Health, the D.C.-based comprehensive healthcare and legal services provider with a longstanding outreach to the LGBTQ community, announced it will hold a dedication ceremony on Oct. 16 for the Dale Edwin Sanders Center for Law & Human Rights.

The event, which will be held at Whitman-Walker’s Max Robinson Center in Southeast D.C. at 10 a.m., will also commemorate an endowment to Whitman-Walker Health’s Legal Services from the estate of Sanders, according to a statement released by Whitman-Walker.

Sanders, a highly acclaimed D.C. attorney for more than 40 years who played a leading role in providing legal services to people with HIV/AIDS, died unexpectedly April 10, 2025, from a heart attack at the age of 75.

At the time of Sanders’s passing, Amy Nelson, Whitman-Walker’s Le

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