Redwine has also been involved with local, state and national leadership programs. Barbara Chenicek, OP and Rita Schiltz, OP, who graduated from Siena Heights in 1957 and 1946 respectively, are award winning designers and co-founders of the INAI Studio on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Motherhouse. Chenicek earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in design at art institutes in Chicago, California, and Michigan. Schiltz is a metalsmith and graphic designer, with a Ph.D. in art theory. Chenicek and Schiltz specialize in the design of contemporary worship spaces.
Space has power to be a catalyst and presence, bringing wholeness, beauty, sense of holy.
Dorothy Gonzales, the daughter of a former Lenawee County migrant family, is a 1978 graduate of Siena Heights. At Siena Heights, she was a non-traditional student and a working mother who earned a bachelor's degree in social work, and went on to earn a master's degree in business and personnel administration from Central Michigan University. Gonzales is the first Mexican American and first Hispanic woman to be elected chair of a major university governing board. She currently serves as Chairman of the Board of trustees at Michigan State University and as the Director of the Department of Community Health's Office of Multicultural Services. Gonzales has held various positions at Michigan State University, along with serving as a research analyst for the speaker of the house in the state House of Representatives, and as an educational and human services policy advisor to Governor James Blanchard.