Yungchen Lhamo was born and raised in Lhasa, Tibet. Her name, meaning 'Goddess of Melody,' was given to her by a lama at birth. In 1989 she made the arduous month-long, 1,200-mile journey across the Himalayas to Dharamsala, India, in pursuit of her dreams, before later settling in Australia. There, her debut album, Tibetan Prayer, won the Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) for Best World Music Album in 1995.

Nadia is a naturalist and ornithologist with 16 years of experience in nature conservation. She is currently the director of the Right to Roam Campaign and is passionate about people reconnecting to nature and how access to nature is systemically unequal. She is a columnist for TGO magazine and chair of the Raven Network, a network for people of colour who work in nature and conservation.