THE GUARDIAN: US voting rights champion Jasmine Crockett: ‘I need everyone to feel a sense of urgency’

Crockett said she came to voting rights accidentally. When she was a student at the University of Houston Law Center, she was late to sign up for a seminar class “so all of the ‘good ones’ were gone”, she said. She ended up in an election law seminar, and remembers thinking: “What am I going to do with this?”

“Little did I know,” she said. “I always tell people that God had this amazing, beautiful plan that I was definitely not clued in on.”