Sarika Tandon, Founder & Principal

Sarika (Sah’-ri’-kah) Tandon is the founder of Rise Consulting.  She facilitates, consults, speaks, teaches, writes, and collaborates at the intersection of race, liberation, and environmental issues. Sarika is deeply committed to working for racial, environmental, and climate justice.

In her work, Sarika partners with organizations and communities to support the well-being and healing of BIPOC communities, re-imagine programs and professional learning to center justice and liberation, and to support racially equitable processes and outcomes.

Sarika has been a Lecturer at the University of Vermont, where she taught about Race and Racism in the US.  She is a former Adjunct Faculty member at Antioch University New England Graduate School of Environmental Studies where she taught about Justice, Equity and the Environment and Climate Justice. She serves on the Board of the Haymarket People’s Fund. 

Sarika is a first generation Indian-American, who grew up in the suburbs of Rochester NY. Her family comes from the foothills of Himachal Pradesh. She earned dual degrees in Peace and Conflict Studies and Conservation and Resource Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was deeply inspired by the East Bay Area’s rich activist history. Sarika holds a Master's degree from Antioch University New England’s Department of Environmental Studies with a concentration on in Social Justice and Sustainability. She lives in the traditional and contemporary Abenaki homelands with her human and chicken family.