Student Affairs
Biography Masood Akhtar is an Indian-born proud American Muslim entrepreneur and activist. Akhtar has been living in Madison for over 35 years. Akhtar has founded and led multiple businesses and has also been actively involved with numerous community projects. One of Akhtar’s most visible efforts is a statewide, non-partisan movement he founded called We Are …
Biography Rev. Michael Burch has decades of ministry, non-profit and university experiences, including university teaching and coaching at the University of California, Davis, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. He completed seminary training in the Graduate Theological Union-UC Berkeley joint MA program and a graduate degree in ancient Mediterranean religions and philosophies at …
Biography Charles L. Cohen, the E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions, Emeritus, has taught and written about colonial British North America, American religious history, and the braided histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. His scholarship has been recognized by, among other awards, the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians for his …
Biography Josh has been serving with Campus Collective for two years. He has a B.S. in Ministry Leadership from Moody Bible Institute, and an M.A. in Strategic Communication from Liberty University. He served as the associate pastor of a non-denominational Christian church in Missouri for six years before moving to Wisconsin to serve college students. …
Biography Sarbpal Hundal immigrated to the United States with family in 1977. Sarbpal grew up in the Kansas City area as a Sikh and member of the Midwest Sikh Society. He was a member of and led the Sikh Youth Group for many years as a camp teacher for Sikh History. Sarbpal moved to Madison …
Biography V. Rev. Dr. Gregory Jensen is a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church USA and teaches pastoral theology and young adult faith formation at St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Bound Brook, NJ. He has a Ph.D. in spirituality and spiritual formation from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. His more than 15 …
Biography Prior to this role, Daniel served as a Young Life area director in Bettendorf, Iowa for ten years. And prior to his time in Iowa, he restarted a dormant Young Life ministry in Plano, Texas. Dan has pioneered and led many projects for Young Life across North America and beyond, with a focus on …
Biography Balvir Kaur was born and raised in Punjab, India. She moved to Madison, WI in 1991 with her family, and completed her Masters in Bacteriology from UW-Madison in 1994. Currently, she is self-employed as the hospital manager at Capital City Veterinary Clinic. She lives in the Madison area with her husband and three children, …
Biography Jampa Khedup began teaching at UW-Madison in 2005. He teaches all levels of Tibetan language classes during the academic year and also teaches for the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI). In addition to language instruction, he offers a lecture class entitled Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. He authored Communicative Modern Tibetan, an elementary level textbook and …