Connie Walker

Connie Walker is a senior reporter in the Investigative Unit at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto. She has done extensive reporting on Indigenous issues in Canada, and most recently, was the writer and host of the award-winning podcast Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo. The podcast is a ten-part investigation into the life and tragic death of Cleo Semaganis, a young Cree girl from Saskatchewan but it is also an in-depth examination on the role of trauma in Cleo’s life – how it impacted her and generations of her family, and how it is interwoven into the lives of Indigenous people across North America. 

In 2018, Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo won the inaugural Best Serialized Story award at the Third Coast International Audio festival. The podcast was also featured in the Columbia Journalism Review, The Rolling Stone, Vulture, Teen Vogue, Chatelaine and was named one of the Best Podcasts of 2018 by Apple Canada.