Laura Dryjanska

Dr. Laura Dryjanska is the Director of the Master of Science in Positive Organizational Psychology at Biola University. Laura has been serving in the Rosemead School of Psychology since 2017. She obtained a PhD in social psychology in 2012 from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She has taught industrial-organizational psychology in Italy, Poland, and the United States. Recently, Laura was awarded the Fellow status by the American Psychological Association.


In 2013, the United Nations estimated that 232 million people, or 3.2% of the world population, lived outside their country of origin. Imagine if all the expats were put together, they would form the 5th most populous country in the world. We could call it the United States of Expatriates. Around the world, the wealthy and poor alike are moving aro...