Sunny Khalsa is a photographer, artist, and horse trainer based in Pioneertown, California. She is best known for her 2019, 611-mile, solo journey on horseback, with a camel carrying supplies, from rural southern Colorado to the Grand Canyon. This inspirational trek was completed with the hope that it would inspire and empower other women to tap into their greatest reserves of fearlessness and strength. Khalsa was born in Houston, Texas to hippie parents and spent her youth in the high deserts of Northern New Mexico, riding and training wild horses. Her teen years took her to boarding school in Northern India, where, in addition to academic studies, she was taught Kundalini yoga, meditation, and Gatka, a south Asian sword fighting martial art. Upon returning to the U.S., she bought a ticket on a Greyhound bus from New Mexico to New York City where she was quickly discovered by a modeling agency. It was while in front of the camera that Khalsa quickly discovered her true passion was to be behind the camera, and thus began her career as a photographer.
