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Shiva Bidar-Sielaff has been a member of the Madison College District Board since July 2015, when she was appointed as an employer member. She was elected as board secretary in 2016, and Board Treasurer in 2017. Bidar-Sielaff resides in Madison and is chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics. She is an alder on the Madison Common Council, as well as an executive committee member on the Dane County Latino Support Network and co-chair of the Latino Health Council of Dane County. Bidar-Sielaff earned a Master of Arts in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. She was awarded a City of Madison/Dane County Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award in January 2010 and the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in 2005.

Term: July 1, 2024- June 30, 2027
Vice-Chair
Employer Member
districtboard@madisoncollege.edu