 Prabhu was born and raised in post-colonial India, where she was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's Socratic teaching philosophy that every classroom is a learning community and the teacher is the facilitator of knowledge.Prabhu moved and traveled all over the world as a child, where she would visit museums to learn about the different cities where she lived to find out each city’s prominent families, history and artistic values.She graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Psychology and later attended Bank Street College of Education’s Museum Leadership Program.