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ZINNIA believes in the power of environment, humanity, community & seeking truth. Her ground-breaking work pushes for positive behavior change through shared awareness, understanding and empowerment.  Zinnia’s academic and advocacy background deeply intersect her personal passions. She is a chartered CIEEM Ecologist, Environmental Sustainability Consultant & Conservation Biologist addressing circularity in fashion, media & natural resources sector. Zinnia has worked for government & NGO’s including Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Department of Environment, Ecology & Evolution Research Centre, Australian Museum as well as protected World Heritage sites &, Ramsar convention wetlands. Alongside Ecology, Zinnia advocates for uncovering the Politics of Beauty, which involves deconstruction & decolonisation of discriminative beauty perceptions stemming from social stereotypes & historic scientific racism. Her work delves into colourism, orientalism, implicit bias, and a lack of racial & ethnic inclusion in media & fashion spaces. A beauty politics advocate & published Human Evolutionary Psychologist looking at attraction, Zinnia’s research, writing, podcasts & talks have been featured by The Royal Society, Science, Time, NYT, Forbes, VanityFair, Vogue amongst many others. Zinnia also sits on the Vogue Values board for Conde Nast International.  Driven by her own experience of being a disadvantaged student, for the past decade Zinnia has been empowering, improving educational access & life outcomes for disadvantaged & refugee youth in marginalized communities in Australia, Thailand, India & the UK. Her humanitarian work encompasses working with Government & NGO’s including Department of Foreign Affairs, Royal Thai Government, Australian Department of Education and UN accredited education charity Think Equal founded by Leslee Udwin.