Connie Walkershe/her

Connie Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and host of the acclaimed podcasts Stolen and Missing & Murdered. Her work has exposed the crisis of violence in Indigenous communities and the devastating impacts of intergenerational trauma stemming from Indian residential schools. Walker’s podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s is one of the most comprehensive investigations into a single residential school in Canada, and in 2023, Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

Prior to joining Gimlet Media, Walker spent nearly two decades as a reporter and host for the CBC. She co-created and led the public broadcaster’s Indigenous Unit in 2013 and was part of a team of reporters who built a database of unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women in 2016. Walker is a member of the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan.