Sankaram teaches musical composition at State University of New York-Purchase, and is co-Artistic Director of Experiments in Opera, a New York-based company that believes in “re-writing the history of opera” through producing new works that are “adventurous and fun, focused on strong and intimate storytelling.” With regard to the latter role, she said, “We tend to hire those that we can think of quickly, and we tend to be able to think of people who are most similar to us more quickly than people who are not.