Amina Hussein was enough of a basketball star growing up in Oakland that she was interviewed by the local newspapers. One clipping saved by her mom was from when Hussein was in 10th grade, where young Amina proclaimed that she wanted to get into sports broadcasting.
On the court, Hussein liked defying expectations: At 6 feet 1 inch, she was
expected to play close to the basket but “I had a mean jump shot and 3-pointers were my bread and butter,” the captain of the Holy Names University (Oakland) basketball team said. When it came to her career game plan, though, Hussein, now Amazon’s head of U.S. sports on-air talent and development for Prime Video, mostly stuck to the script.
