From Harpo Productions Assistant to Oprah Winfrey Interviewer
O Girls premieres Sunday at 8 p.m. on Fusion.
Ten years ago, Kimberly Brooks (pictured) began her professional career as an assistant at Harpo Productions in Chicago. On Sunday, she will be connected to former boss Oprah Winfrey in a different manner – as host of the Fusion special O Girls, which profiles Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.
Brooks is now based in Miami. Ahead of Sunday’s show, she spoke with Miami Herald reporter Madeleine Marr, who asked how Brooks wound up at Fusion, where she has been since 2014:
“I was hired as an ABC News Fellow in New York City after Columbia Journalism School.
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