[4] Usher Komugisha was born in Kilembe, in present-day Kasese District, western Uganda, and has two older siblings: her brother Campbell Nagaba and sister Mellisa Fiona.

[6] She went on to Makerere University to study for a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree, but decided to quit and immerse herself fully in sports journalism by learning on the job.

[6] In October 2008, on a visit to Power FM Studios, Komugisha was asked by renowned media personality Mark Ssali to speak on air about basketball, and the following year on the recommendation of his fellow pundit Joseph Kabuleta, she began reporting sports in the New Vision thanks to an opportunity by the then Sports Editor Louis Jadwong.

[8] In November - December 2022, she was a TV analyst for Al Jazeera at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar alongside renowned media gurus Gemma Soler from Spain and Colombian Juan Arango.

She also moderated the inaugural Moving Sports Forward Forum in the same year organised by the Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri in Kigali, Rwanda.