Alex Dumania, current elementary education student in the School of Education, has faced many choices in his life. As he moved to Poland in 2012 with his mother at age 19 after growing up in Orange County, CA, he made a choice. His mother presented him with the choice to either go to work or school. He chose school. 

“My mom told me to get to work or go to school. At that time, it was an obvious choice for me. I enrolled and majored in English and teaching English as a foreign language,” recalled Dumania. “I studied for five years, including a gap year.”

The next 12 years of Dumania’s life choices would lead him through the journey of enlisting in the Army, finding Christ and enrolling at Biola.

While in Poland, Dumania’s field of study led him to teaching English while earning his degree. In 2018, Dumania moved back to California and everything was different. He faced difficulties adapting to the culture and finding work that aligned with his degree.

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Alex Dumania

Dumania chose to enlist in the Army in 2020, taking him to Germany and Denmark, then to Romania when the Russia/Ukraine war broke out. While he was serving in the Army, his father passed away. When clearing out his father’s apartment, a Bible on a bookshelf stuck out to Dumania. Growing up in a household that was not spiritually oriented and then finding himself at a dead-end in his life in his mid-20s, Dumania reached a turning p