Annie Ilonzeh

I'm really good with sweats, not really good with heels, and not really good with accessorizing yet.

I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you know, oshogatsu. We had obon festivals every year. All those things.