"What an elegant lady she was," said Cindy Parmenter, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, who covered Schomp as an education reporter for the."If there's an epitaph for Kay, she did it for Denver children. She truly believed in education."
Schomp was at the center of the controversy over school busing following the U.S. Supreme Court order to integrate Denver's schools, making sure DPS complied with the federal ruling. Lupe-Schomp grew up in Colorado and graduated from the Denver School of the Arts in 2007, then went to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City. She quickly grabbed roles in show business, racking up guest and recurring parts in network and cable TV shows in the early 2010s. on Amazon Prime as well as's Willa, an aspiring playwright/escort who becomes the love interest of Connor Roy.