Taarika Sridhar is a lawyer based in London. She launched her legal career at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston, and currently works within the private equity practice group at Goodwin Procter (UK) LLP. As a finance and PE lawyer, she has worked on complex and dynamic deals, including leveraged buyouts and high yield bond offerings. When she’s not billing corporate clients, Taarika spends her time assisting The Innocence Project, the California Innocence Project, and the Loyola Project for the Innocent review cases of potential wrongful convictions in the US.
While in law school at Northeastern University, Taarika directed the school’s chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). For two and a half years, she worked with a pair of Kurdish refugees in their journey to gain asylum, advocating on their behalf with the UNHCR and government organizations in Turkey and Canada, and eventually helping them secure asylum in Canada in 2018. Since graduating from law school, she has continued to work with immigration clinics to assess refugee and asylum seekers’ claims and help them navigate the complex immigration system.
Taarika graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in Political Science in 2013. In her freshman year, she was a member of EPIIC’s 2009-2010 colloquium on South Asia. Together with her peer and friend Julia Evans, Taarika spent the summer after EPIIC researching the political identities of Muslim immigrants and minority populations in Assam, India, and they published some of their findings in GlobalPost.
Other IGL initiatives Taarika was involved with include the Empower program, where she worked with peers to assess social entrepreneurship initiatives, and the Poverty and Power Research Initiative (PPRI), where she researched corruption and oligarchies in Bosnia and Turkey. She also worked with the Institute and Sherman in their capacities as mentors and partners to OneWorld, a student-led initiative to raise awareness about global inequalities through an annual fair-trade crafts bazaar, and Tufts Idea Exchange (TEX), a forum for intellectual inspiration and the precursor to TEDX.
A “cosmopolitan Indian,” as Sherman describes her, Taarika grew up in Muscat, Oman, a place she still calls home, and has had the privilege to live, study and work around the world, including in Dubai, Boston and London.