Zinn Amos will be attending Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina this fall where he will major in biomedical engineering with plans to become an orthopedic surgeon. He is a graduate of Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, Illinois with a weighted G.P.A. of 5.22. Zinn was awarded as an Illinois State Scholar and a membership in both the National Honor Society and the French Honor Society.

The founder of his high school medical club, Zinn has taken to heart a determination to engage in biological research in order to enhance the quality of life for African Americans and people in poverty. Zinn is an active member of the Apostolic Church of God where Dr. Byron T. Brazier is his pastor. Zinn is an Ezra Project Sankofa Memorial Scholars.