Sabina Shanti Kariat

Sabina Shanti Kariat is an Indian-American animator, artist, and filmmaker based in San Francisco. She has created 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 held co-creation workshops with Adivasi (indigenous) activists in rural India as a Brown University Social Innovation Fellow, and with Syrian-Turkish youth in Istanbul as a Fulbright Fellow. She is currently working as an animator and muralist, while managing a public arts program at ARTogether, an org that brings immigrants and refugee communities together through art. She is a nerd about traditional shadow puppets and is interested in the relationship between diaspora and memory.