basics

birth name: scarlett santiago
date of birth: july 18, 1986 (25)
birthplace: boston, massachusetts
current residence: providence, rhode island
occupation: radio show co-host
journal & aim: ~sant &
played by: zoe kravitz (previously naya rivera)

credits

facts
(ONE) Is very opinionated and blunt. She knows her own mind and is extremely determined.
(TWO) Hates sports - not so much playing them, but definitely watching them.
(THREE) Loves cheesy pop music from the ‘90s and ‘00s, but also listens to a variety of other stuff. Her preferred time period when it comes to music is definitely more contemporary, though.
(FOUR) Drinks coffee and Diet Coke like it’s going extinct.
(FIVE) Her best friend in the world is probably her older brother, Gabriel.
storylines

derek moore: radio show co-host.

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biography

Scarlett Santiago didn’t expect to ever escape the clutches of her mother. As a child, her mom, Maria, who was a single parent, seemed to hate her. There are three Santiago children - Scarlett, Gabriel and their younger sister, Sara, who was born in 1990 - and the baby of the family was born a few months after the children’s father, Daniel, had left the family. Daniel and Maria weren’t married, but had been together for ten years and had three children together: naturally, it hurt Maria a lot when he left them. Scarlett was the spitting image of her father, and once he’d gone, her mother wanted as little to do with her as possible. She was only a child, and Maria would never have left her to fend for herself. Emotionally, though, it was evident even to the little girl that her mommy didn’t love her the way she loved her brother and sister.

Scarlett powered herself through a lot of tough patches, a lot of bad times and a lot of fights with her mom. At first she used to write funny little sketches to amuse herself, not with the intent of ever showing anybody, and it evolved until when she was in college, she started making YouTube videos. At first it was just make-up tutorials and things like that, but it progressed to her making opinion videos and eventually having her own channel where people were following her just to see what she’d come out with next. Scarlett is an eloquent person, a woman of strong opinions, and easy on the eye - so that combination made her a popular figure on YouTube.

At school, she had an aptitude for English and art, and she wrote and drew well. She was consistently praised for her work in papers and creative writing, as well as her sketches. Her mother didn’t approve of her daughter’s talents and wanted Scarlett to focus on the math and science portions of her curriculum. The idea was that Scarlett would be a nurse or something equally... aspirational. Scarlett had other plans. She wanted to work in the media, and she and her mom had some epic fights over that. It didn’t help that, at the time she was making the YouTube videos, she was also struggling with her sexuality. Being sixteen and unsure of your sexual orientation is, as anyone who’s gone through it will concede, difficult in the extreme. It spurred Scarlett to post more videos about what she was going through with her mother and sexuality and also with the political ideologies she was beginning to pick up on. It helped her work through them. It was kind of therapeutic, in a way. Today, she identifies as bisexual, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t talk about LGBT topics any more just because she’s settled with who she is.

She left her mother’s home in Boston in 2004 to go to college at Brown. She was extremely glad to be out of the clutches of her mother, whose icy demeanor towards her hadn’t warmed up any in the years between her father and then Scarlett leaving. At eighteen, she studied English at Brown. She had no idea what she wanted to do with her degree, and knew she really should be studying something like Media instead. She switched majors in 2005 without telling her mom, who didn’t show any interest in what her oldest daughter was doing anyway. It wasn’t difficult to conceal the truth about what she was studying.

Scarlett graduated from Brown in 2008. From there, she started working at a Providence radio station as an intern. At the same time, she was balancing a waitressing job, because she couldn’t afford to live off even a paid internship alone. It was clear to everyone who knew her that the radio job was her real passion, though, and the job she worked far harder at. She was a very lackadaisical waitress and made a lot of mistakes, but nothing like that ever happened at the station, such was her dedication.

She’s worked at the station ever since. In early 2011, she was finally given a show of her own - albeit in the 2am-4am graveyard slot. Scarlett was co-hosting it at first, but after her co-host moved on to a bigger and better job, she took over the helm on her own and ended up making quite a success of it. Even more recently - within the past month - she was promoted to the 2pm to 6pm time slot alongside the established DJ Derek Moore, after his former co-host was given a show of her own that suited her schedule better. So far, it’s going well, but Scarlett is all too aware that she’s on probation and can be booted from the show if she messes up. She has to rein herself in more than she did when she was on air in the middle of the night, but it’s slowly becoming a natural instinct to bite her tongue.

Now almost 26 years old, Scarlett lives in Providence.

timeline in brief

• Born in Boston, MA in the summer of 1986.
• Left home in 2004 to go to college at Brown in Providence, RI.
• Graduated from Brown in 2008.
• Started working at a Providence radio station in 2008 as an intern.
• Moved up the rankings to host her own radio show in 2011.
• Began co-hosting the Top 40 radio show with Derek Moore in 2012.