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Connie Walker is a Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker. She is best known for her work on the CBC Radio One series Unreserved, and for her award-winning documentary series Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo.
Walker was born in Balcarres, Saskatchewan, in 1979. She is of Cree and Scottish descent. She attended the University of Regina, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Education.
Walker began her career as a journalist in 2002, working for CBC Radio in Saskatchewan. She later moved to Toronto, where she worked as a reporter and producer for CBC Radio One's The Current. In 2016, she became the host of Unreserved, a CBC Radio One series that focuses on Indigenous stories.
In 2018, Walker released her first documentary series, Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo. The series follows the story of Cleo Semaganis Nicotine, a Cree girl who was taken from her family in the 1970s as part of the Sixties Scoop. The series won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Series.
Walker is currently working on a new documentary series, The Secret Path, which follows the story of Chanie Wenjack, an Anishinaabe boy who died in 1966 while trying to escape a residential school.
As of 2021, Connie Walker's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.
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In 2018 Walker launched season two of her Missing and Murdered podcast, focused on finding the truth behind the life and death of Cleopatra Nicotine Semaganis, who was removed from her family as part of the Sixties Scoop.
In 2018, Walker's media work was recognized by her inclusion on Open Canada's annual Twitterarti Indigenous voices list. Also in 2018, Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo won best serialized story at the Third Cost International Audio Festival.
Walker was honoured as one of the YWCA's "Women of Distinction" in 2017.
Her work on the Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams podcast was recognized with a Webby Award nomination in the Documentary/Podcasts & Digital Audio category in 2017.
On October 25, 2016, the CBC News published Walker's eight -part investigative podcast, Missing and Murdered, focused on the murder of Alberta Williams in 1989 along the Highway of Tears in British Columbia. Chatelaine magazine and Flare magazine interviewed Walker, the week the podcast went online.
On November 17, 2016 Ryerson University's School of Journalism invited Walker, Karyn Pugliese, and Tanya Talaga to a panel on covering Indigenous issues.
On May 29, 2016, Walker and colleagues at the CBC's Aboriginal news unit, won the Canadian Association of Journalists' Don McGillivray Investigative Award and its Online Media Award, for the stories on its "Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls" website.
On February 6, 2015, The Eyeopener, the student newspaper at Ryerson University, quoted comments Walker made during a panel on Indigenous Representation in Canada's media:
In December 2015 CBC Radio broadcast a 14-minute program entitled "Connie Walker and the firsthand legacy of residential schools", in which she described the horror of residential schools through her family's experience, and reporting on the Truth and reconciliation commission. The last residential school to remain in operation was near Walker's home, the Okanese First Nation. She described learning how her mother and grandparents were survivors of the residential school system.
After graduation Walker, took a permanent position with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She served as host of Living Saskatchewan, and as a reporter and producer for CBC News: Sunday and flagship CBC news show, The National. In the fall of 2009 Walker became a correspondent for Connect with Mark Kelley. In 2013 she helped produce the acclaimed 8th Fire documentary on contemporary Indigenous life. In December 2013 Walker was appointed lead reporter for the CBC's Indigenous reporting unit.
In 2009, Okanese, a personal documentary Walker produced about the community in which she grew up, earned an honourable mention at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival.
Walker says her first act of journalism was an article she wrote for her high school newspaper, about the brutal murder of a young First Nations woman, and the institutional racism in the investigation and reporting of that murder. Walker was employed for the 2000, 2001 and 2002 seasons as a host for Street Cents, a youth oriented consumer and media awareness show, while she was still a journalism student in Saskatchewan.
