Sabina Shanti Kariat (she/they) is an SF-based Indian-American animator, artist, and cultural worker. She creates animations for documentary films about the 1960’s American civil rights movement, the history of Japanese-American incarceration camps in California, the impact of the criminal justice system on refugees, and loss of native languages among immigrants. Sabina has worked as a teaching artist throughout San Francisco, and has led co-creation workshops in Jharkhand, India and Turkey. She is a nerd about traditional shadow puppets, reads poems about horses, and is interested in the relationship between diaspora and memory. She currently manages public arts programs at ARTogether.
