Sabrina Cruz

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. As of December 2022, the channel has 1.14 million subscribers and 53.64 million views.[3] She also hosted Crash Course Kids, the children-oriented version of the educational YouTube series Crash Course.[4]

Sabrina Cruz
Cruz in 2016
Personal information
Born (1998-04-22) April 22, 1998
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Education
Websitesabrinacruz.ca
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2012–present
Genres
Subscribers1.31 million[1]
Total views59.03 million[1]
Associated acts
Websiteanswerinprogress.com
100,000 subscribers2014
1,000,000 subscribers2022
Last updated: 27 July 2023

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

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]

References
  1. "About Answer in Progress". YouTube.
  2. Cruz, Sabrina [@NerdyAndQuirky] (22 April 2017). "19 YEARS OLD AND READY TO... study for my history exam" (Tweet). Retrieved 28 May 2023 – via Twitter.
  3. Anderssen, Erin (28 June 2016). "Through the eyes of Generation Z". The Globe and Mail.
  4. Lanning, Carly (16 September 2015). "#WCW Sabrina Cruz is the queen of the nerds". The Daily Dot.
  5. "Students at University of Toronto receive Canada's largest STEM scholarship". Media Room. University of Toronto. 12 September 2016.
  6. "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.
  7. Orenstein, Hannah (31 July 2015). "Fierce YouTube Star Requests People "Stop Being Sh!tty to Teenage Girls"". Seventeen.
  8. "nerdyandquirky - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com.
  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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