Sabrina Cruz | |
Birth Date: | 22 April 1998 |
Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Channel Direct Url: | c/answerinprogress |
Channel Display Name: | Answer in Progress (In junction with Taha Khan and Melissa Fernandes) |
Years Active: | 2012–present |
Subscribers: | 1.51 million |
Views: | 86.3 million |
Silver Button: | yes |
Silver Year: | 2014 |
Gold Button: | yes |
Gold Year: | 2022 |
Stats Update: | 7 May 2024 |
Sabrina Marie Cruz (born April 22, 1998[1]) 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. As of May 2024, the channel has 1.51 million subscribers and 86.3 million views. She also hosted Crash Course Kids, the children-oriented version of the educational YouTube series Crash Course.[2]
Originally from Toronto, Ontario, she graduated from Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School in Ajax.[3] She posted her first video on YouTube when she was in grade 7; the now-deleted video depicted her eating a cookie.[4] 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.[4] 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]