Thomas walker us attorney general loretta

It’s not every day you get to see Loretta Lynch, the first black woman to be U.S. Attorney General.

WUNC Youth Radio’s Kamaya Truitt-Martin and Taylor Walker almost didn’t get that chance.

“At first they didn’t see my name on the list to get in and I thought they were joking,” Truitt-Martin said.

Thomas walker us attorney general loretta

“The guy at the front desk was like, ‘Let me get my boss because you two need to be in there,’ and we were like, ‘Um, yeah, we really do!’”

Lynch came to her home state of North Carolina last week to talk about issues like human-trafficking, calling the national problem “modern-day slavery.” Because of a mishap RSVP’ing to the event, Truitt-Martin’s name was left off the media list.

Authorities tested her patience for hours outside the doors to the press conference as she waited to get the approval to go inside.

“I was acting indifferent at the time but in my heart I was praying that I would be able to go in,”