How Can Faith Communities Support the Rights of Immigrants?

Nima Kulkarni will be at Louisville Seminary to facilitate the workshop. Registration is required by August 11, 2025. Light refreshments served.

This workshop, led by Rep. Nima Kulkarni, Kentucky State Representative and Immigration Lawyer, offers resources for understanding the aggressive escalation in current government immigration policies and how they affect faith communities and the immigrants in their congregations and neighborhoods.

Participants will also learn about a wide range of actions they can take to support immigrants and be given the opportunity to network with leaders from other faith communities around different ways to offer care, accompaniment, and advocacy.

Questions? Contact: Marcus Hong, Director of Lifelong Learning at mhong@lpts.edu

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This event supports Louisville Seminary’s Anti-Racism Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and is part of the Lifelong Learning initiative officially launching this Fall.

About Nima Kulkarni, Esq.

Nima Kulkarni is the founder and managing attorney of Indus Law Firm. Her practice focuses on corporate, employment-based, and family-based immigration law.

Ms. Kulkarni holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship, a B.A. in English Literature and a Juris Doctor degree. She has been a practicing attorney since 2007.

In 2018, Ms. Kulkarni was elected as the first Indian State Representative in Kentucky history. She represents the 40^th District in Louisville, which includes the University of Louisville and Churchill Downs.

Throughout her career, Ms. Kulkarni has established partnerships with crucial stakeholders from the legislative, corporate, nonprofit, and educational arenas. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards and has been recognized for her work in the community over the years.

Ms. Kulkarni is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and has established relationships with legislators on a state and national level through her advocacy work. She is a strong proponent of rational immigration policies that will benefit and sustain economic and cultural growth both for our region and the country as a whole.

Most recently, Ms. Kulkarni established the New Americans Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to civic engagement and mobilization of immigrant and refugee communities in Kentucky.

About Lifelong Learning at Louisville Seminary
Lifelong Learning at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary equips people to keep their lamps trimmed and burning with resources for living faithfully and ministering wisely as they proclaim the Gospel, care for all, and work for justice in an ever-changing world. With a diverse array of thought-provoking, creative, affordable, and inclusive educational experiences that provide rich opportunities for engagement — standalone workshops, in-depth certificate programs, online, hybrid, and in-person events — Lifelong Learning at LPTS strives to engage a broad spectrum of learners in transformational theological education that addresses the current needs and emerging horizons of a variety of ministries and contexts.

*Due to the topic of this workshop and care of those attending, this workshop will only be available in-person.

How Can Faith Communities Support the Rights of Immigrants?

with guest speaker Nima Kulkarni, Kentucky State Representative & Immigration Lawyer