Sabrina Cruz

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Sabrina Cruz
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Cruz in 2016
Personal information
Born (1998-04-22) April 22, 1998 (age 25)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Education
Website sabrinacruz.ca
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2012–present
Genres
Subscribers1.41 million [1]
Total views76.14 million [1]
Associated acts
Website answerinprogress.com
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2014
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2022

Last updated: 17 December 2023

Sabrina 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 December 2023, the channel has 1.41 million subscribers and 76.14 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 in grade 7; 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]

Cruz in 2014 Sabrina Cruz 2014.jpg
Cruz in 2014

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. [9] [10]

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