Drawn to the Region and Its People — A Conversation with Hungarian Honorary Consul Chris Ball

Drawn to the Region and Its People — A Conversation with Hungarian Honorary Consul Chris Ball

Born in Atlanta, raised in Alabama and New Orleans, with no Hungarian roots, Chris Ball moved to Hungary in 1994 for a scholarship. He fell in love not only with Emese Gáll, his later wife, but also with the land and the people of Transylvania. The family moved to Connecticut in 2003 because of Chris’ work at Quinnipiac University (QU), where he taught economics. In 2005, he began inviting Hungarian speakers to QU, and later, due to an anonymous…