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A civil rights attorney and incoming Howard University law professor is among the dead after a midair collision between a passenger jet with a military helicopter killed 67 people on Wednesday evening. Kiah Duggins, 30, was aboard the American Airlines flight carrying 60 passengers and four crew members that crashed with a Black Hawk helicopter just minutes before its scheduled landing at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, relatives and close friends confirmed.

The three members of the helicopter crew also died. More: Students, Olympic skaters, families and more. A tribute to lives lost in the DC plane crash. Before her death, Duggins was "set to begin a new chapter as a professor at Howard University in the fall," the university posted on social media. The Harvard Law alumna and former White House intern dedicated her career to fighting against "unconstitutional policing and unjust money bail practices in Tennessee, Texas and Washington, D.

Duggins' remarkable career began far before she studied law at Harvard.

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While pursuing her bachelor's in business at Wichita State University from to , she earned several accolades including the school's Clay Barton Scholarship and Fulbright Scholar Program. On campus she took on leadership roles as the Student Government Association chief of staff, enacting policy and guided school activities, according Bobby Gandu, the university's associate vice president for Strategic Enrollment Management.

Duggins and her fellow student senators collectively founded the school's first resources pantry, according to Gandu. The Shocker Support Locker is still flourishing in , offering students in need thousands of items for free, from food to school supplies and personal hygiene products.

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Gandu met Duggins she was a student at Wichita High School East, where he quickly recognized promise in the trailblazer. He said after graduating from Wichita State, she cemented a legacy as a "model of excellence" for other students, including future cardiologists, attorneys and educators. Gandu said he wrote a letter of recommendation for Duggins to be selected for the Fulbright Program, which allowed her to teach English abroad to young children in Taiwan.