{"id":181653,"date":"2025-07-03T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=181653"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:35:21","slug":"ljupka-conquers-america-with-gentle-diplomacy-young-serbian-professor-shapes-future-presidents-and-political-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/ljupka-conquers-america-with-gentle-diplomacy-young-serbian-professor-shapes-future-presidents-and-political-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"LJUPKA CONQUERS AMERICA WITH GENTLE DIPLOMACY: Young Serbian Professor Shapes Future Presidents and Political Leaders!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ljupka Katana<\/strong> left her hometown of \u010cajni\u010de for Belgrade due to war. Years later, she moved to Chicago, this time for knowledge. This young <strong>Doctor of Political Science<\/strong> is now a professor at Webster University, where she teaches her students, future politicians and leaders, that the greatest power is precisely that which shapes the world, society, and relationships within it without force or coercion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all. Our Ljupka successfully practices psychology, helping young people struggling with drug addiction and depression. She is also well on her way to becoming an <strong>Argentine tango dance instructor<\/strong>, and still finds time for <strong>fashion and modeling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See what she told our editor Antonije Kova\u010devi\u0107 in an interview about her journey from a small Bosnian town to the big city of Chicago, about adapting to other cultures and customs, the struggle for a place in the sun, encounters with radical Islamic students, and the nostalgia she feels for her homeland&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LJUPKA NE\u017dNOM DIPLOMATIJOM OSVAJA AMERIKU: Mlada srpska profesorka u\u010di budu\u0107e predsednike i lidere!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37zVQNmWZn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more exclusive interviews and interesting reports, subscribe to our YouTube channel <strong>Serbian News USA<\/strong> with one click on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SerbianNewsUSA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">THIS LINK<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/ecological-catastrophe-in-serbia-unprecedented-fish-kill-in-raska-everything-that-was-in-the-river-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE IN SERBIA: Unprecedented fish kill in Ra\u0161ka; \u201cEverything that was in the river is dead\u201d!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/police-officers-in-balaclavas-removed-barricades-in-zemun-blockade-also-interrupted-in-pancevo-heres-what-students-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">POLICE OFFICERS IN BALACLAVAS REMOVED BARRICADES IN ZEMUN: Blockade also interrupted in Pan\u010devo; Here\u2019s what students say!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/charged-at-citizens-at-full-speed-with-police-vans-police-violently-broke-up-blockades-during-the-night-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">CHARGED AT CITIZENS AT FULL SPEED WITH POLICE VANS: Police violently broke up blockades during the night! 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(PHOTO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/colombia-sent-a-protest-note-serbian-police-arrested-famous-professor-accused-him-of-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">COLOMBIA SENT A PROTEST NOTE: Serbian police arrested famous professor; Accused him of terrorism!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Source<\/strong><\/strong>: Antonije Kova\u010devi\u0107 <strong>Edit: <\/strong>Vladimir Talijan<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/studenta-aleksu-22-pretukli-u-marici-naterali-ga-da-obrise-sve-sa-telefona-udarali-ga-u-glavu-video\/\" title=\"\"><br><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ljupka Katana left her hometown of \u010cajni\u010de for Belgrade due to war. Years later, she moved to Chicago, this time for knowledge. This young Doctor of Political Science is now a professor at Webster University, where she teaches her students, future politicians and leaders, that the greatest power is precisely that which shapes the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":181654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3081,1778,1447,6251,7401,876,7402,295,7403,7404],"class_list":["post-181653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-argentina","tag-cikago","tag-diplomatija","tag-konzulat-u-cikagu","tag-ljupka-katana","tag-politika","tag-profesorka-politickih-nauka","tag-srpska-dijaspora","tag-tango","tag-webster-university","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181709,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181653\/revisions\/181709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}