Wed, 15 January 2020 at 3:00 pm

Yara Shahidi Opens Up About Juggling Her Career & Her College Work

Yara Shahidi crashes Trevor Jackson‘s photo shoot at Build Series on Tuesday (January 14) in New York City.

The 19-year-old actress and the 23-year-old actor both went on the show, separately, to chat about the upcoming third season of their series grown-ish.

During Yara‘s interview, a fan asked her how she manages her career and going to college at the same time.

“I think, it doesn’t take a village, it takes a small country to make this work. I’m being so honest. If it does not take a continent at the least,” she answered. “I have a wonderful team of people, not only on my personal team, but on the grown-ish team themselves, who understand how important my school is to me. I appreciate the fact that I am able to have that life as my own private life, and also live this public college life for people.”

“It really does take a ton of people who appreciate and value the same things I do to make that work, because they didn’t have to,” Yara added.

FYI: Yara is wearing Ivy Park.