Sabrina Cruz
Sabrina Cruz is a Canadian YouTuber best known for posting videos on her main channel, Answer in Progress, formerly known as NerdyAndQuirky, which she launched on January 6 2012. As of December 2022, the channel has 1.14 million subscribers and 53.64 million views.[2] She also hosted Crash Course Kids, the children-oriented version of the educational YouTube series Crash Course.[3]
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Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||
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Years active | 2012–present | |||||||||
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Subscribers | 1.14 million[1] | |||||||||
Total views | 53.64 million[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 1 Dec 2022 |
Originally from Toronto, Ontario, she graduated from Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School in Ajax.[4] She posted her first video on YouTube when she was in grade 7; the now-deleted video depicted her eating a cookie.[2] In October 2016, she was a first-year undergraduate at the University of Toronto's Innis College, Toronto, from which she received a Schulich Leader Scholarship in that year.[5] She studied mathematics at the University of Toronto.[2] She spoke at one panel at the 2015 VidCon, where she also moderated another panel.[6] In 2017 Cruz was nominated in the Breakout YouTuber category at the 9th Shorty Awards.[7]
In 2020, she, along with Taha Khan and Melissa Fernandes, started Answer In Progress, a digital media project funded by the Super Patron Creator Arts grant.[8][9]
References
- "About Answer in Progress". YouTube.
- Anderssen, Erin (2016-06-28). "Through the eyes of Generation Z". The Globe and Mail.
- Lanning, Carly (2015-09-16). "#WCW Sabrina Cruz is the queen of the nerds". The Daily Dot.
- "Students at University of Toronto receive Canada's largest STEM scholarship". Media Room. University of Toronto. 2016-09-12.
- "Building boomerangs, creating YouTube videos: meet U of T's Schulich Leaders". U of T News. University of Toronto. 2016-10-13. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
- Orenstein, Hannah (2015-07-31). "Fierce YouTube Star Requests People "Stop Being Sh!tty to Teenage Girls"". Seventeen.
- "nerdyandquirky - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com.
- Cruz, Sabrina (10 September 2020). Do I Regret University? (YouTube video).
- Keating, Hannah (March 26, 2021). "Answer In Progress's Approach to Educational Content on YouTube".