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Connie Walker is an award-winning Cree journalist.

Walker grew up in the Okanese First Nation, in Saskatchewan. She describes growing up in a remarkably large and close family. She has 13 siblings and both of her parents also have large families. Walker has one daughter.

Walker was awarded a Joan Donaldson Newsworld Scholarship while studying at Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, which provided her with an opportunity to work as an intern for CBC Newsworld. She graduated in journalism from the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, and subsequently graduated from the University of Regina.

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.