Guest Speakers
László Aradvári is the Hungarian Community Diplomat at the Consulate General of Hungary in Chicago. He was born in Keszthely, Hungary, where he completed his studies and earned university degrees in Agricultural Economics and French Translation. He continued his education at the Budapest Business School, specializing in Diplomacy. He has worked as a project engineer, marketing and communications specialist, and foreign relations advisor. He participated three times in the Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Program, supporting Hungarian organizations in Texas and Chicago. He also earned a degree in Sports Diplomacy from Széchenyi István University in Győr. For six years, he was the manager of the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble. Since January 2024, he has been serving as community diplomat and consul at the Consulate General of Hungary in Chicago. He has attended the ITT-OTT Conference three times. Thanks to his parents, he has been involved in folk dance since birth and served for 18 years as the director-choreographer of the Tündérrózsa Children’s Folk Dance Group.
Zsuzsanna Fekete is a Hungarian Community Diplomat and historian. Since 2023, she has served as the Hungarian Community Diplomat at the Embassy of Hungary in Washington, D.C. Previously, she headed the secretariat of Dr. Katalin Szili, former Speaker of the National Assembly, in her role as the Prime Minister’s Commissioner responsible for coordinating Hungarian autonomy efforts in the Carpathian Basin. Before that, she worked at the State Secretariat for National Policy within the Prime Minister’s Office, as well as at the Rákóczi Association in Budapest. In 2018, she began her research at the Doctoral School of History at Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, where she obtained her absolutorium in 2022. Her academic publications have appeared in journals such as Századok, Kisebbségi Szemle, and Rendszerváltó Szemle.
Eszter Kiss, actress, is a member of the Katona József Theater in Budapest, and also performs as a guest in other Budapest theaters. She taught theater and drama history for two academic years at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, where she earned her DLA (Doctor of Liberal Arts) degree in 2021. Her dissertation focused on American and Hungarian actor training methods. She has been actively engaged in Hungarian literature for 25 years and runs her own film channel, where she creates short films about Hungarian writers from her own unique perspective. Her active role in community life was recognized with an Arts Award by the village of Páty.
András Ludányi (Budapest and Ada, Ohio) is one of the founding members of the MBK (Hungarian Communion of Friends) and co-editor of the ITT-OTT Almanac. He has served the Hungarian community for decades, including through our organization. He is a political scientist and Emeritus Professor at Ohio Northern University. In Budapest, he works with the Institute for National Policy Research and serves on the Advisory Board of the VERITAS Institute for Historical Research and Archives.