Kiah Duggins, a Washington civil-rights attorney, had returned to Wichita, Kan., where she attended high school and college, before boarding the ill-fated American Airlines plane that crashed. Howard University School of Law,

When I found out she got into Harvard Law. I mean, of course, she did,” one of her undergraduate professors said.

The Harvard Law graduate and civil rights attorney was set to become a professor at Howard University Law School this fall.

A woman who made a name for herself in Wichita and was in the process of doing the same thing in Washington was on the plane that crashed in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Kiah Duggins was a civil rights attorney who worked with a legal group in D.

Kiah Duggins, a Harvard graduate, former Miss Kansas contestant, and attorney, has been identified as one of the victims of the deal collision between a commercial plane and an Army helicopter near Washington D.

A fatal collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army Black Hawk helicopter claimed the life of civil rights attorney and aspiring HBCU professor, Kiah Duggins per a report by the New York Post.

As families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among the 67 people dead.