“Creatively, I can’t do anything if I’m not listening. This is how I know God has called me to certain things because once I start listening, things start happening.” Reflecting on her diverse life experiences, Dionna Rojas '16 roots her success in the Lord’s prompting and work in her life. The mother of three and grandmother of one, Rojas deeply loves her family and is passionately involved in strengthening other families through her coaching of working mothers.
Rojas earned her associate degree in human services in 2016 through Geneva’s partner program with the Center for Urban Biblical Ministry. Now, she is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership through Geneva’s online degree program.
As an advocate for leadership in the lives of working mothers, Rojas believes Geneva’s ODP program to be doable for adult learners “if you know who you are and what you can handle.” Though she initially started with three classes at a time, Rojas’ nontraditional schedule led her to switch to completing her degree one class at a time, so she can enjoy the learning process and give adequate attention to her work and her own husband and children. She is grateful for her Geneva professors’ “level of patience, thoroughness, and quality of teaching” and their ability to appropriately challenge her while also showing empathy for her nontraditional learning structure.
Rojas has over 30 years of experience in nonprofit work. She is currently involved in a local organization that provides workforce and housing counseling in the broader Pittsburgh area, but her heart for the helping profession has led her to hold a wide variety of jobs over the years. This has included special education and disability programs, workforce development for the under or unemployed, and working at a local community correction facility where she facilitated parent education classes and built out a family reunification program. Rojas relates her love of meeting new people, hearing others’ stories, and getting the chance to encourage those with whom she interacts.
Alongside her community work and studies at Geneva, Rojas began an online coaching group for working mothers called Treasure You Coaching in 2021. This idea was born after Rojas realized how often mothers do not recognize the value of motherhood as a calling from God and a powerful opportunity for leadership. In previous work, she found herself in a unique position of leadership, even though she does not yet have her degree, and she sees this leadership experience as preparation for her to now help others. Through her mentoring programs, Rojas desires to serve middle- and low-income mothers who desperately need encouragement but cannot typically afford a personal coach. As she collaborates on Treasure You Coaching with her sister, Rojas says, “I enjoy encouraging. I enjoy providing information and coaching and helping people see things from a different perspective.”
For Rojas, understanding the nature of good leadership is vital because “everyone leads at some point in their lives,” and we must steward this responsibility well. Rojas empowers mothers to demonstrate the fruit of the spirit in their homes as well as their workplaces, and understand how to lead well within their families. Rojas believes “a [good] leader is able to introduce an idea and then use modeling and communication to speak to an audience that is willing to come alongside in the direction that you’re going.”
In September 2024, Rojas published a book entitled Alignment: Reflections on Motherhood, Clarity, and Purpose that provides accessible encouragement for mothers and is rooted in excerpts from one of Rojas’ prayer journals. In Rojas’ own words, the first draft of her book was “terrible,” but when she subsequently listened to the Lord’s prompting to focus her writing on her audience’s needs rather than herself, the book was impactful in a way it couldn’t have been otherwise.
Rojas also received the Autism Excellence Award in January 2025 due to her previous work with a parent training center that teaches parents how to advocate for their special needs child. Receiving this award reminds Rojas of the way parenting is an enormous responsibility but also of how the Lord’s grace can be so evidently demonstrated through motherhood.
Reflecting on the past decade of her life, Rojas joyfully shares how the Lord has taught her through this time. “He has been patient, and I have matured in listening better to where God is leading.” Rojas acknowledges the Lord’s ever-present guidance and humbly recognizes her journey of learning to listen to the Holy Spirit. She concludes, “Even if you feel like you’re all over the place and have made some mistakes, God creates beauty from ashes and there’s nothing in your life that He does not use, not only to benefit us but also to further Kingdom work and Kingdom impact.”
By Sarabeth Schuck ‘25
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