--- description: Find out why Connie Walker is one of the 100 most influential people of 2024. title: Connie Walker: The 100 Most Influential People of 2024 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt039f62236be84495/698a55a9e6e84a7fa62b2cf2/time-100-2024-connie-walker.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 17, 2024 # Connie Walker by Julian Brave NoiseCat  Mandatory Credit: Photo by Todd Williamson/January Images/Shutterstock (13660788dl) Connie Walker 38th Annual IDA Documentary Awards, Los Angeles, California, USA - 10 Dec 2022 Mandatory Credit: Photo by Todd Williamson/January Images/Shutterstock (13660788dl) Connie Walker 38th Annual IDA Documentary Awards, Los Angeles, California, USA - 10 Dec 2022Todd Williamson—January Images/Shutterstock Connie Walker’s first assignment for her high school newspaper was a story about the murder of a Saulteaux Indigenous woman by two white men near where Walker grew up on the Okanese First Nation. She didn’t see any Indigenous journalists covering the story. She realized she could be that voice. Nearly a decade ago, I interviewed Walker because she had become that voice. Her groundbreaking work has shed light on unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people, even unearthing new evidence. While many news­rooms continue to ignore our stories, Walker has skin in the game. In the most recent season of her Pulitzer Prize–winning podcast, [_Stolen_](https://gimletmedia.com/shows/stolen "undefined")_,_ she turned her investigative acumen on the [Indian residential school](https://time.com/6177069/american-indian-boarding-schools-history/ "undefined") where her father was abused—a story all too familiar for Native families. It’s her relentless commitment to exposing hidden truths—which she pursues with the dogged drive of an investigator, the compassion of a relative, and the vulnerability of an artist—that makes her voice so powerful. _NoiseCat is a writer and filmmaker_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964628/connie-walker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964628/connie-walker/"},"headline":"Connie Walker","datePublished":"2024-04-17T10:56:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:28:56.098Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964628/connie-walker/","keywords":["TIME100","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","2024TIME100","T100Innovators2024"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt039f62236be84495/698a55a9e6e84a7fa62b2cf2/time-100-2024-connie-walker.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt039f62236be84495/698a55a9e6e84a7fa62b2cf2/time-100-2024-connie-walker.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964628/connie-walker/","name":"Connie Walker"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See Everyone on the TIME100 2024 list","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/73p9kgIN/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-04-17T11:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/73p9kgIN.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964628/connie-walker/","duration":"PT1M59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6964628/connie-walker/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```