Ball attended high school at Yarra Valley Grammar and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2010.

[12][13] Ball was invited to lead the 18th Pride March Victoria alongside his teammates from the Yarra Glen Football Club.

[16] On 3 May 2014, Ball's team Yarra Glen hosted the inaugural Pride Cup, which saw the 50-metre lines at each end of the oval painted in rainbow colours.

The idea spread to other codes, including hockey, roller derby, lawn bowls, netball, and water polo.

[27] He was also the co-founder and President of the Freethought Student Alliance, a coalition of Australian atheist, secular, humanist and skeptic campus groups.

[28] On 10 August 2015, Ball announced that he was standing as the Greens candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Higgins at the 2016 Federal election, against Kelly O'Dwyer.

He stated he wanted his campaign to focus on climate change, asylum seeker policy, science, and mental health.

The two party preferred outcome was 54% Liberal compared to 46% Labor, with Katie Allen being elected as the new member for Higgins.

[40] Pop culture and news website Junkee included Ball in "The Disruptors", their list of thirty people "changing the game for young Australia".

[42] In May 2016, the University of Melbourne presented Ball with the Arts Alumni Rising Star Award recognising his "outstanding level of personal achievement and community involvement".