She simultaneously attended Montgomery Blair High School and the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School (where she was an arts semifinalist in the Presidential Scholar competition, and won Montgomery County's prestigious Ida F. Sugar was raised in the Sligo Park Hills area of Silver Spring, Maryland. Sugar's queerness has served as the inspiration for her to stress the importance of LGBT representation in the arts, especially in children's entertainment. Sugar is bisexual, non-binary, and genderqueer, using both she/her and they/them pronouns. Her work on the two series has earned her seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Until 2013, Sugar was a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time. She is best known for being the creator of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, making her the first non-binary person to independently create a series for the network prior to coming out as non-binary, Sugar was described as the first woman to do so. Rebecca Rea Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an American animator, screenwriter and musician.
