Saved by the Bell's Alycia Pascual-Peña on the Importance of Afro-Latinx Representation on TV

Pascual-Peña is a proud Dominicana from the Bronx. Her parents met on the island, (her father was born there while her mom was born in the U.S.), and she spent her early years in a monolingual Spanish home thanks to her parents and grandparents. "They sent me to pre-K without knowing English. In the moment, I was livid because I was like, ¡no entiendo nadie! But thank God, I had a wonderful nun in my pre-K in the Bronx that really helped guide me," she told POPSUGAR.