Joanna Hausmann

Hausmann was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, to economists Ricardo Hausmann and Venezuelan Ana Julia Jatar during their graduate studies in the UK.[1] She became a US citizen in 2012.

Her digital series Joanna Rants attempts to bridge bicultural gaps and challenge stereotypes through humor.[2][3][4] She tackles a variety of subjects such as explaining the different Spanish accents across Latin America, and comparing U.S. and Latin American customs and politics.

Hausmann was a correspondent on the Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World,[5][6] which ran from 21 April 2017 to 11 May 2018. She was called the show's "unexpected star" by Inverse Magazine.[7] She also voices the Octalian Pilot on Disney Channel's Milo Murphy's Law. She is slated to voice another animated character on the upcoming Monsters, Inc. spin-off series from Disney, Monsters at Work. Hausmann is also a cast member on the upcoming animated CBS All Access series "Harper House.".[8] Hausmann has written for television for shows including TruTV's sitcom Tacoma FD. She is the head-writer on Disney Channel's upcoming comedy series "Hamster and Gretel."[9]

She won Comedian of the Year and Creator of the Year at Hispanicize's 2016 Tecla Awards[10] and was nominated for a Best Humor Series Shorty Award.[11] In 2018, she was honored by the National Hispanic Media Coalition with the award in Excellence in Online Story Telling.[12]

She is a performer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre[13] in New York City and a vocal critic of the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. She is Jewish.[2] Her father was the Juan Guaidó-appointed envoy to the Inter-American Development Bank until his resignation.[14] Her brother is Michel Hausmann, a Venezuelan theater director who endured discrimination after an orchestra cancelled their collaboration with his production of Fiddler on the Roof, citing their concern for government funding under Hugo Chávez.[15][16] She is also the niece of Venezuelan journalist Braulio Jatar, a former political prisoner.[17]