Sabrina Cruz
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| Born | April 22, 1998 | |||||||||
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| Website | sabrinacruz | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2012–present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 1.51 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 86.3 million[1] | |||||||||
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| Website | answerinprogress | |||||||||
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Last updated: 7 May 2024 | ||||||||||
Sabrina Marie Cruz (born April 22, 1998[2]) is a Canadian YouTuber best known for her educational YouTube videos on her main channel, Answer in Progress, formerly known as NerdyAndQuirky, which she launched on January 6, 2012.[3] As of November 2024, the channel has 1.6 million subscribers and 95.7 million views. She also hosted Crash Course Kids, the children-oriented version of the educational YouTube series Crash Course.[4]
Originally from Toronto, Ontario, she graduated from Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School in Ajax.[5] She posted her first video on YouTube when she was 7th grade; the now-deleted video depicted her eating a cookie.[3] 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.[6] She studied mathematics at the University of Toronto.[3] She spoke at one panel at the 2015 VidCon, where she also moderated another panel.[7] In 2017 Cruz was nominated in the Breakout YouTuber category at the 9th Shorty Awards.[8]
In 2020, she graduated from the university with a bachelor degree in math, economics and statistics,[9] and along with Taha Khan and Melissa Fernandes, she started Answer In Progress, a digital media project funded by the Super Patron Creator Arts grant.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "About Answer in Progress (In junction with Taha Khan and Melissa Fernandes)". YouTube.
- ^ Cruz, Sabrina [@NerdyAndQuirky] (22 April 2017). "19 Years Old and Ready to... study for my history exam" (Tweet). Retrieved 28 May 2023 – via Twitter.
- ^ a b c Anderssen, Erin (28 June 2016). "Through the eyes of Generation Z". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ Lanning, Carly (16 September 2015). "#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. 12 September 2016.
- ^ "Building boomerangs, creating YouTube videos: meet U of T's Schulich Leaders". U of T News. University of Toronto. 13 October 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- ^ Orenstein, Hannah (31 July 2015). "Fierce YouTube Star Requests People "Stop Being Sh!tty to Teenage Girls"". Seventeen.
- ^ "nerdyandquirky - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com.
- ^ "About Us". Answer in Progress. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- ^ Cruz, Sabrina (10 September 2020). Do I Regret University? (YouTube video).
- ^ Keating, Hannah (26 March 2021). "Answer In Progress's Approach to Educational Content on YouTube".
External links
[edit]- Sabrina Cruz on Twitter
- Interview Archived 4 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine on Fusion
- So You Want To Be A YouTuber? | Sabrina Cruz | TEDxUofT
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