WICHITA, Kan. ( KWCH /Gray News) - As families and communities continue to identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., there’s now news that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among the 67 people who were killed.

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.

Howard University law professor Kiah Duggins has been identified as one of the victims of the devastating plane collision near Reagan National Airport, university officials confirmed Thursday night.

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

Kiah Duggins — a 30-year-old Civil Rights attorney, aspiring Howard Law professor, former Michelle Obama intern, and former Miss Kansas contestant — has been identified as one of the victims in the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter crash outside of Washington,