Medgar Evers College dean from Brooklyn among those dead in Amtrak derailment
Derrick Griffith, dean of student affairs and enrollment management at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, believed in education — for himself as well as others.
Griffith was one of at least eight people killed in an Amtrak train derailment Tuesday night in Philadelphia.
He formerly was a school principal, and in 2003 he founded the City University of New York Preparatory Transitional High School. He also was executive director of Groundwork. Inc., an organization formed to support young people living in high poverty urban communities.