Collaboration with diverse ethnic communities as well as storytelling with words and imagery have been her research interests.

[1] Sabnani has taught for more than two decades at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.

[3] Sabnani graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Vadodara and completed a certificate program in animation film making at the NID, Ahmedabad.

She received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1997 to purse post-graduate studies in film at Syracuse University, New York.

[4] Her doctoral research at the IDC, IIT Bombay was based on Rajasthan's Kaavad storytelling tradition.