The 30-year-old civil rights lawyer was scheduled to join the faculty at Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C., this fall, the university said Thursday.
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.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump spoke with ABC News on Tuesday to offer his thoughts on the move by the Trump administration regarding civil rights investigations.