Sybil Brooks Evans, daughter of the late E. Homer Brooks and Lucille Brooks, was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. At the age of 12 her father accepted a position with the U.S. Dept of State.

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Kaitlin Stevens is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has also appeared in Buzzfeed, She Knows and Greatist. Robert Redford and his wife, Sibylle ...