Akron Roundtable: Farhad Sethna and Madhu Sharma

Date and Time

• Thursday, Apr 17, 2025  12pm

Location

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Attorney Farhad Sethna began practicing law in 1991 and in May 1996, he started his own practice focusing on Immigration Law. His business focuses on a diverse group of clients, ranging from individual students to huge multi-billion dollar corporations and their employees.

He has his juris doctorate from The University of Akron School of Lawn and his MBA in International Business & Marketing from The University of Akron College of Business Administration.

Sethna is also a private pilot, and like any good pilot, studies maps to chart his course, and anticipate alternatives if bad weather approaches. Sethna often equates flying to immigration – legal theory must be checked, right applications need to be filed and you have to be flexible to deal with unforeseen problems.

Madhu N. Sharma has served as the Executive Director of the International Institute of Akron since November 2017 and as a Director of Immigrant Legal Services since August 2015. She is an Indian immigrant and a human rights attorney practicing and teaching in the field of immigration law for 20 years. Certified by the State Bar of California, she has represented migrant farm workers, unaccompanied minors, victims of state sponsored torture, human trafficking and crimes from countries spanning the globe. In 2011, she was awarded a Congressional Certificate of Honor and the ACLU Immigrant Advocacy Award for representing victims in the first federal alien smuggling case to result in visa issuance to hostage victims.