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 2021, the channel has 842,000 subscribers and 32.24 million views.[2] She also hosted Crash Course Kids, the children-oriented version of the educational YouTube series Crash Course.[3]

Sabrina Marie Cruz
Cruz in 2016
Personal information
NationalityCanadian
Websitehttps://www.answerinprogress.com/
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2012–present
Genre
Subscribers857,000[1]
Total views33,779,828[1]
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers 2014
Updated: 03 May 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, and hopes to do financial work for a big company.[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
  1. "About Answer in Progress". YouTube.
  2. Anderssen, Erin (2016-06-28). "Through the eyes of Generation Z". The Globe and Mail.
  3. Lanning, Carly (2015-09-16). "#WCW Sabrina Cruz is the queen of the nerds". The Daily Dot.
  4. "Students at University of Toronto receive Canada's largest STEM scholarship". Media Room. University of Toronto. 2016-09-12.
  5. "Building boomerangs, creating YouTube videos: meet U of T's Schulich Leaders". U of T News. University of Toronto. 2016-10-13.
  6. Orenstein, Hannah (2015-07-31). "Fierce YouTube Star Requests People "Stop Being Sh!tty to Teenage Girls"". Seventeen.
  7. "nerdyandquirky - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com.
  8. Cruz, Sabrina (10 September 2020). Do I Regret University? (YouTube video).
  9. Keating, Hannah (March 26, 2021). "Answer In Progress's Approach to Educational Content on YouTube".
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