Zinnia Kumar, is from Sydney, Australia and is of North, South and Eastern Indian ancestry. She is a fashion model and has been on the cover of Vogue. Zinnia is also an advocate and public speaker. Her advocacy covers sustainability, diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and mental health, with talks on topics such as self confidence, social phobias and truth seeking within the various aspects of beauty and its skewed portrayals within media. She is an Ecologist (accredited by the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Managers) and a sustainability, beauty and well-being psychologist who attended University of New South Wales, University College of London and University of Oxford. She is a published scientist with work published in journals the Royal Society of Science (Biology Letters) and Adaptive Human Behaviour and Physiology.