Sabrina Cruz

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Sabrina Cruz
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Cruz in 2016
Born (1998-04-22) April 22, 1998 (age 27)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Years active2012–present
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Subscribers1.67 million
Views105 million
Last updated: 26 March 2025
Website sabrinacruz.ca

Sabrina 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. [2] 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. [3]

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 7th grade; 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]

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Cruz in 2014

In 2020, she graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in math, economics and statistics, [8] 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. [9] [10]

References

  1. ↑ Cruz, Sabrina [@NerdyAndQuirky] (22 April 2017). "19 Years Old and Ready to... study for my history exam" (Tweet). Retrieved 28 May 2023– via Twitter.
  2. 1 2 3 Anderssen, Erin (28 June 2016). "Through the eyes of Generation Z". The Globe and Mail.
  3. ↑ Lanning, Carly (16 September 2015). "#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. 12 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ Orenstein, Hannah (31 July 2015). "Fierce YouTube Star Requests People "Stop Being Sh!tty to Teenage Girls"". Seventeen.
  7. ↑ "nerdyandquirky - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com.
  8. ↑ "About Us". Answer in Progress. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  9. ↑ Cruz, Sabrina (10 September 2020). Do I Regret University? (YouTube video).
  10. ↑ Keating, Hannah (26 March 2021). "Answer In Progress's Approach to Educational Content on YouTube".
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