Seems to me, story structure is everything in profile writing. At the end of the reporting, you have this mass of information and no easy news peg to guide your writing. Hell if I know. I won't belabor the details here, but one arm of the structure that works well is also the most fun to use. This is a paragraph or two justifying the person as profile-worthy.
Diverse points are best, and that makes it fun to write.
You have to back them up, but later. By her 21st birthday, Nagraj experienced the drama of a lifetime. She witnessed the deaths of both of her parents, and helped sprinkle their ashes into the gray Atlantic. Volunteering at hospitals and health clinics, she assisted in the delivery of more than 30 babies, twice snipping the umbilical cord. A bright child with an aptitude for science and math, she was filing the family's tax returns at age 13.