Student Affairs
Biography Rev. Erica Liu has served Pres House since 2004. She is a second-generation Taiwanese-American who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. She lives in Madison with her partner, Mark, and together they have two daughters. Erica has a B.A. in Mass Communications from UC Berkeley, a Master of Divinity from …
Biography Ginger joined the Pres House staff in July of 2012 as the first Director of Residential Community. As Director of Candid & Community Initiatives, Ginger leads Candid, the Pres House student wellness initiative. She focuses on how to promote wellness in the context of community and to envision how Pres House Apartments can best …
Biography Asifa Quraishi-Landes is a Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison She specializes in comparative Islamic and U.S. constitutional law, with a current focus on modern Islamic constitutional theory. She is a 2009 Carnegie Scholar and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. Recent publications include “Legislating Morality and Other Illusions about Islamic Government,” and “Healing a …
Biography Ibrahim Saeed is the President of the Islamic Center of Madison, located on 21 N Orchard Street near Camp Randall stadium. Dr. Saeed worked as a researcher in UW–Madison’s department of Plant Pathology before retiring in 2019.
Biography Melissa delights in the innovation and collaboration required to design and implement programs that inspire spiritual transformation. Committed to activating the gifts of those around her, she thrives on mobilizing teams, pioneering new ideas, and transforming creative energy into practical next steps. Prior to joining Upper House as its third staff member in 2015, …
Biography Fr. Eric Sternberg has been the Pastor of Saint Paul Catholic Student Center since July 2023 and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Madison in 2005. He graduated from UW-Stevens Point with a degree in Biology in 2000 and from Mundelein Seminary with a degree in Sacred Theology in 2005. Fr. Eric …