A discussion with award-winning Cree journalist Connie Walker presenting her most recent podcast series ‘Stolen: Surviving St. Michaels,' led by Sayre Quevedo.
About this event
For this event, Walker will present on her most recent series ‘Stolen: Surviving St. Michaels’ which delves into the history of residential schools in Canada and the ways that history has personally impacted her own family, specifically her father, his siblings, and their community as a whole.
Connie Walker is an award-winning Cree journalist who has spent her career covering injustices committed against indigenous people in Canada, often through the lens of “true crime.”
Sayre Quevedo is an artist and journalist. He works across mediums to tell stories about intimacy, identity, and human relationships.
Quevedo began as a reporter with Youth Radio in Oakland, California at the age of 15 in 2008. Since then his work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace, BBC Short Cuts, Love Me on the CBC, McSweeney's and Radio Atlas.
In 2018 his piece 'Espera' received the Third Coast/RHDF Directors' Choice Award and his other piece 'The Quevedos' was nominated for a Best Audio Documentary award by the International Documentary Association (IDA). The following year he won the 2019 Third Coast/RHDF Gold Award for Best Documentary for 'The Return' . It was also nominated for a Best Audio Documentary award by the IDA, his second nomination two years in a row.
Quevedo was the Fall 2019 Podcaster-In-Residence for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and an Associate Producer for The Daily at The New York Times and NPR's Latino USA and a Producer for VICE News.
Image Description: A photo of Connie Walker looking into the camera wearing a green blouse against a black background.
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