Sablan advocates on behalf of women and BIPOC people in architecture as the founder and executive director of Beyond the Built Environment.
[2] While painting a mural for a community center in Pomonok, Queens, when she was 11, she was told she would make a good architect.
[5] While she was a student at Pratt, she interned with Aarris Architects,[6] working on a project for the Ancestral Chamber of the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York.
[5] Following her graduation in 2007, Sablan worked as an architect for FXFOWLE (now FXCollaborative) for 10 years as a member of its international studio.
[9] She has worked on residential, mixed-use, and commercial projects in Azerbaijan, India, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan.
She worked alongside students to design a school campus for the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, following the earthquake in 2010.
[5] The group's 2017 exhibition SAY IT LOUD highlighted work by members of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA).
[15] Sablan is a former president of the New York Coalition of Black Architects and has been on the board of trustees of The Mary Louis Academy.