Naima Mora, best known for winning Cycle 4 on “America’s Next Top Model” will be collaborating with YouTube glam content creator Arika Sato for a few episodes on Sato’s Web show Model Tips that teaches beauty tricks and fashion secrets to aspiring models and “girlie girls.” Sato’s YouTube channel has approximately 86,000 subscribers and over 4 million views.
Naima Mora was born on March 1, 1984 in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of jazz vocalist and entrepreneur Theresa Mora and jazz percussionist Francisco Mora Catlett. Her paternal grandparents are painter Francisco Mora and sculptor, painter, and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett.
Naima was the winner of Cycle 4 on “America’s Next Top Model.” Since then she has done print modeling for CoverGirl, ELLE Magazine, Fuego Magazine, Us Weekly Magazine, Radar, In Touch, Star and Teen People. Mora’s runway shows include Christopher Deane Spring 2006 Collection, Gharani Strok Fall 2005, Carlos Miele Fashion Show, Walmart and ELLEgirl Presents Dare To Be You Spring 2006, Fashion Comedy Style 2005 (Charity Event), and New York Fashion Week 2007.
In 2012, she released the iBook Naima Mora’s Model Behavior, published by Possibility Publishing & Entertainment. She has been seen on television as a guest on The Tyra Banks Show, on the second season premiere of Veronica Mars, and in a CoverGirl commercial with Yoanna House.
Arika Sato is an American TV personality, model, and journalist. Born in Torrance, California, Arika Sato is an L.A. Native, Japanese-American, and fluent in Japanese. You might remember Arika from the MTV’s hit reality TV Show “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF” where she was nicknamed as the “Japanese Princess” from the heiress. You can catch her hosting on UFragTV talking about the current high-tech gadgets and top secret gaming techniques, not just in L.A., but in Tokyo too.
Arika first realized her dreams of becoming a television journalist as a pre-teen, growing up watching TRL as her favorite after-school TV show. After high school, she attended the University of California, San Diego where she received a double B.A. in Communications and Japanese Studies with Honors.
Graduating college in a quick span of three years, Arika returned to her true passion—entertainment—and relocated back to Los Angeles. She has appeared on shows on MTV, E!, SpikeTV, HBO, CW and Starz. She is currently working on her master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from University of Southern California.
