Judit Kadar (Dr. habil/ PhD) is an associate professor of communication studies at the Sports University of Budapest and director of the Sports Diplomacy Program. She is an interpreter, coach, DEIB and cultural diplomacy expert. She has taught US and Canadian culture studies for three decades, including terms in the US (GCSU, UNM) and teaching at ELTE and Pannonia Universities in Hungary. She published 2 monographs, including Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing (Lexington, 2022) and contributed to The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature (Routledge, 2016) and to Wording Otherness: Living and Learning in Dissimilitude Without Dissonance (Cambridge Scholars, 2023). She serves as an active Fulbright alumna. She is the co-manager of the Upskill Training System. At IBS, her teaching area is Business communication and other employability skills.