Ginger holds a Ph.D. from Denver University & Iliff School of Theology and comes to Pres House having served as the Associate Dean of Students at Colorado College. She has extensive experience in mental health, higher education administration, and pastoral care. Though hailing from the Midwest, she had the opportunity to live for two and a half years in India, for five years in Nashville, TN, and for over 16 years in Colorado Springs, CO.

It took me a long time to learn that I couldn’t always see around the next bend in life, in spite of all my plans to the contrary! What a delightful and surprising journey that brought me to the heart of the UW campus and Pres House. I’ve lived a lot of different places (Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, India, Nebraska) and done a lot of different types of work (college admissions, chaplain, crisis counselor, natural foods grocery stocker, dean of students) and am still excited by what I’m learning, the people I meet, and how the path will unfold.

I love working with UW Madison students and helping them learn and practice skills and habits that will allow them to thrive here. As a health and life coach I see my work as planting and nurturing the seeds that will continue to grow and blossom throughout life. Figuring out how the live the life you are dreaming of shouldn’t be a deferred dream for another day. I want to support each student crafting and living a life they love, even when they have to do hard, challenging things–and those lessons can carry forward into life after UW. If you want encouragement and support in learning what helps you learn and thrive in your life, I hope you’ll set up a time for us to talk.