Réka Sundem, the youngest speaker at the Hungarian Association’s annual conference in Cleveland, spoke to Hungarian Conservative about her experience as a student enrolled in one of the Balassi Education Programs in Hungary. Beyond the details of her scholarship, we also asked the 18-year-old about her mixed, Hungarian–American background.
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Your background and family were not mentioned in your presentation. Tell us about them.
My maternal great-grandparents immigrated from Budapest; my grandparents were born ‘on the road’ in Austria; my mother was born in Chicago.
