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Madison365 is a local nonprofit community news outlet intended to keep communities of color in Greater Madison & across WI informed & heard.

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Beyond the Title is a series of Q&As with alumni of Madison365’s Most Influential lists in preparation for the 365 Leadership Summit, which is themed “Built to Last.” Register now at 365LeadershipSummit.com.

Rev. Erica Liu (Most Influential Asian American Leaders, 2026) is the executive director and pastor of Pres House, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) campus ministry serving students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has served Pres House since 2004 and stepped into the executive director role in 2024. A second-generation Taiwanese American who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is an ordained Presbyterian minister. When Liu arrived in Madison, Pres House was largely dormant; under her leadership it has grown into an active campus center that reaches hundreds of students a year, expanding to include not only worship and pastoral care but also the Pres House Apartments, a community-focused student housing development, and Candid, a holistic wellness initiative. Over that period the organization’s annual budget grew from roughly $160,000 to more than $2.2 million. Beyond Pres House, Liu has been active in campus and denominational life, serving as president of the University Religious Workers of UW–Madison and on the board of trustees of McCormick Theological Seminary, and she has taught and led at national conferences on collegiate ministry, multicultural ministry, and Asian American young adult formation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. A longtime taekwondo practitioner, she earned her third-degree black belt in 2025. by @madison.365

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I Wanna Give a Special Shout Out to my Big Homie Henry Sanders 👑🐐🏆💯🦾 & Madison365 for Selecting me as a Panelist for the 2026 Leadership Summit I’m extremely Humbled by This Opportunity & Honored to Represent my Family Church & Community on such a Big Stage with this Illustrious List of Giants from the Madison Area. I Look Forward to Sharing my Knowledge & Experience on the Importance of 💳Credit Building, 💵🏦 Financial Literacy Tax Preparation 📃📊🗂️ & Generational Wealth 🏢 if you are Really Serious about using your Network to Build your Net worth I Strongly Urge you to Register for this Event #GetRichCommunity #Madison365 #LeadershipSummit #GenerationalWealth by @madison.365

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Beyond the Title is a series of Q&As with alumni of Madison365’s Most Influential lists in preparation for the 365 Leadership Summit, which is themed “Built to Last.”

April Kigeya (Most Influential Black Leaders, 2020) is a community leader, advocate, published author, and candidate for Mayor of Madison with a career rooted in public service and community engagement. A former Dane County Board Supervisor and Second Vice Chair, she has championed racial equity, public safety, youth opportunity, and community wellness. In 2020, she was named one of Madison365’s Most Influential Black Leaders in Wisconsin. April holds a bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies from UW–Madison and an MBA from Edgewood University. A longtime Madison resident and mother of four, April brings lived experience, professional leadership, and a deep commitment to ensuring community voices are represented where decisions are made. Rad this and more Beyond the Title Q & A’s at Madison365.com/BeyondTheTitle. by @madison.365

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“A leader can eventually believe everything is going well simply because people have stopped telling them what isn’t.”

In his latest “The Selfless Way” column, Henry Sanders, publisher and CEO of Madison365, writes that culture is shaped by the conversations leaders don’t hear, and by whether employees believe the real conversation can happen in the room.

Read the column now at Madison365.org/TheSelflessWay by @madison.365

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AI is already changing how organizations hire, work, and decide, and the leaders who benefit most will be the ones who think past the next tool release. At the 365 Leadership Summit on Monday, October 19 (less than two weeks away!), we’ll have a panel conversation that brings together leaders from technology, higher education, and the regional business community to talk honestly about what adoption actually looks like, where jobs and workflows are really changing, how to bring a team along, and how to make sure the benefits reach the communities too often left out of technology gains.

Vertikals AI cofounder Steve Alston will lead the panel, which will include:

Sreenath Pillai, Software Engineer & Founder, Vertikals and ChainCatalyst
Dr. Sabrina Robins, Executive Vice President of Workforce Solutions and Innovation, Abaxent
Dr. Manohar Singh, Chancellor, UW–Oshkosh
Zach Brandon, President, Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce

PLUS! The Vertikals crew will also hold a masterclass in how to use AI tools in your business!

Register for the 365 Leadership Summit now at 365LeadershipSummit.com! by @madison.365

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Beyond the Title is a series of Q&As with alumni of Madison365’s Most Influential lists in preparation for the 365 Leadership Summit, which is themed “Built to Last.”

Victoria Thayer (Most Influential Latino Leaders, 2025) founder and owner of Novii CPA, a Madison-based accounting firm that incorporates a subscription model to support entrepreneurs and small businesses. She came from Venezuela to the University of Rochester, initially to study chemical engineering but pivoted to accounting and graduated with a degree in business in 2015. Since then, she has worked at a number of accounting firms and earned a master’s degree in accounting from Edgewood University before launching Novii in 2023. She is treasurer of the nonprofit coworking space StartingBlock Madison, a member of the board of the Madison Reading Project, and an advisory committee member for WWBIC. Read this and many more Beyond the Title Q & A’s at Madison365.org/BeyondTheTitle. #leadership #wisconsin by @madison.365

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Some of the most durable institutions begin because somebody stopped waiting to be invited. At the 365 Leadership Summit on Monday, October 19, one of the sessions will bring together entrepreneurs and founders who built businesses without the traditional advantages of capital, networks, pedigree, or an obvious path in. They’ll talk candidly about getting the first customer, surviving the years nobody celebrates, accessing capital, making payroll, building a team, and turning an idea into an institution that can exist beyond its founder.

Alex Ysquierdo, Director of the Wisconsin Supplier Diversity Program, will lead the discussion. Panelists include:

- Griselda Aldrete, Founder & CEO, Star Sports Consulting; Founder, Aldrete Law and Consulting Firm
- Will Green, Founder & CEO, Mentoring Positives, Inc.
- Josh Kosnick, Founder, Kairos Coaching
- Victoria Thayer, Founder & Owner, Novii CPA

This is just one of more than 20 panel discussions and master classes to help you grow as a professional, a leader and a community member. Registration is open now at 365LeadershipSummit.com. by @madison.365

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Beyond the Title is a series of Q&As with alumni of Madison365’s Most Influential lists in preparation for the 365 Leadership Summit, which is themed “Built to Last.”

Mark “ShaH” Evans (Most Influential Black Leaders, 2025) is an entrepreneur, martial arts coach, speaker, and mentor dedicated to building leaders who strengthen their communities. As owner and head coach of Wolf Pack Combat Academy and host of the You Control You Podcast, he turns lived experience into lessons in responsibility, resilience, and purpose. A survivor of childhood abuse, racism, and violence, ShaH has managed multiplatinum recording artists, coached champion fighters, helped found a nonprofit, and mentored young men involved with the Department of Corrections. His mission is to build lasting leadership through discipline, courage, and personal responsibility, guided by his message: You Control You. Read this and more Beyond the Title Q & As at Madison365.org/BeyondTheTitle. by @madison.365

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Beyond the Title is a series of Q&As with alumni of Madison365’s Most Influential lists in preparation for the 365 Leadership Summit, which is themed “Built to Last.”

Qin Tian (Most Influential Asian American Leaders 2026) is a Mandarin Chinese teacher at Middleton High School, where she teaches five classes of more than 110 students at levels ranging from introductory Mandarin through AP Chinese. In April 2026, Tian was named a recipient of the Heartland Chinese Teacher Award from the U.S. Heartland China Association, which recognizes excellence in Chinese language teaching across 21 states; she was the only recipient from Wisconsin that year, selected from nominations spanning 17 cities in 14 states. She joined the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District during the 2024-25 school year, part of a district program that begins Mandarin instruction at the middle school level and that she has described as the largest in Dane County. She collaborates with the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and partners with the Chinese American Museum of Chicago to connect students with Chinese language and culture, and helped organize the district’s annual Lunar New Year celebration. She was previously named the 2024 Wisconsin Chinese Language Teacher of the Year and was a 2025 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Teacher Fellowship finalist. Tian has more than 13 years of experience in education in China and the United States, and her students have placed first and second in state-level Mandarin speaking competitions.

Read more at Madison365.com/BeyondTheTitle. by @madison.365

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In our fifth and final segment, a political operative, a forensic anthropologist, an educator and more. Read all the bios now at Madison365.org. #leadership #latino #wisconsin by @madison.365

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Heal the Hood MKE Founder Ajamou Butler will lead a session on the faith and spiritual grounding that has long sustained leaders through injustice and exhaustion at the 365 Leadership Summit on Monday, October 19.

Holy Imagination explores how belief, race, and radical grace meet in the work of leading: the imagination to envision a more just future, the honesty to name what race costs, and the grace, extended to others and to oneself, that keeps a leader whole. Part reflection and part conversation, it makes room for the spiritual dimension of endurance that most leadership gatherings leave out.

Panelists include:

- Monis Khan, Ozaukee County Board Supervisor & member of the Wisconsin Democratic Party’s Muslim Caucus
- Rev. Erica Liu, Executive Director & Pastor, Pres House
- Rev. David Hart, Pastor, Sherman Church
- Rev. Dr. Marcus Allen, Senior Pastor, Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Registration is open now at 365leadershipsummit.com. by @madison.365

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In Part Four: An educator, a judge, a groundbreaking Mayor and more. Read their full bios now at Madison365.org. #latino #leadership #wisconsin by @madison.365

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