A 22-year-old woman is publicly accusing a prominent former Virginia governor—and the first ever elected black governor in the United States—of sexual harassment, the Washington Post reports.

Sydney Black says that L. Douglas Wilder kissed her without her consent in 2017, when she was 20 years old and working as an office assistant at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. Black was also a student at VCU at the time of the alleged incident.

Black laid out the events in detail to the Post: on her 20th birthday—February 16, 2017—Wilder reportedly took her out to a celebratory dinner, gave her alcohol (though she was underage), invited her back to his condo in Richmond, and kissed her without her consent.

The following month, Wilder invited her to brunch to apologize, Black told the outlet. She says that upon arrival, she realized that she was actually at Wilder’s home. The now 88-year-old former governor gave her champagne and showed her a bedroom where he said she could live rent free, while promising to get her into Howard Law School and take her on trips abroad, Black told the Post. She says she made it clear that she didn’t want a personal relationship. Three months later, Black said, Wilder told her that there was no more funding for her position at the school.

VCU gave Black notice via letter that it was opening up a Title IX investigation into Wilder’s actions, according to the outlet. Black had withdrawn from school partly because of Wilder and just recently re-enrolled.

Wilder is a well-respected name in Virginia, a powerful former politician and prominent social and cultural voice in the African American community. Black, who is African American, told the Post this fact has made it very difficult for her to decide to step forward with her accusations. “I had to choose being a woman over being black,” she said.

The accusations against Wilder come just as an intense media firestorm on public figures in Virginia had begun to die down. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has been embroiled in a scandal involving a blackface photo on his medical school yearbook page, Attorney General Mark Herring also admitted to wearing blackface at a college party, and Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax has faced accusations of sexual assault. Wilder, for his part, had called publicly for Northam to step down as governor.

Wilder didn’t respond to the Post’s requests for comment. Black told the outlet that the incidents with Wilder have “been on my mind every single day. I would relive those moments, go back to that night. I was depressed.”