Boyana Balta

Boyana Balta is the middle child of three with siblings Mirjana and Aleks. Her father, Velimir Balta, escaped communism leaving the former Yugoslav with his mother by pretending to go on vacation and taking political asylum in France. Three years later, they immigrated to Montreal, Canada. There he took on the trade as a typewriter technician. Boyana's mother Milena, from the Bosnian region of the former Yugoslav, met her father through the mail and after being overseas pen-pals for some time, they married by proxy. They were already married when Milena met Velimir in person for the first time stepping off the plane in Montreal. A year later, they relocated to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada where Boyana Balta was born. Her parents run an office innovation store together and her mother also recently received her BA from McMaster University in 2011. Growing up, Boyana trained in a wide variety of extracurricular activities including theatre, ballet, judo, improv, piano, gymnastics, ice skati