“I was 4 or 5 when I decided I wanted to be an animator,” she says. Generally, she didn’t see herself and her multicultural family on TV, but that didn’t stop her. “As a little kid, I was thinking, ‘Man, I would love to make a show one day that featured all the different skin tones that could happen in one family, all the different cultures, and have it be sort of like, Hey Arnold!, [but] based in the reality where we lived. So I always was working with that goal in mind,” she reminisces, praising the diversity and “realness of the city” of the ‘90s Nickelodeon animated series.
