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Amara Walker is an Emmy-nominated anchor and correspondent for CNN based at the network's global headquarters in Atlanta.

Walker began her career at CNN as an anchor for CNN International where she distinguished herself as one of the lead breaking news anchors, having covered a number of live major international news events without a script for hours on end.

As a CNN correspondent, Walker reported on the Atlanta spa massacre and the subsequent outcry from the Asian-American community against the increasing hate and racist incidents due to misplaced blame for the Covid-19 pandemic and Donald Trump's rhetoric. She also co-hosted a primetime special with Anderson Cooper, Victor Blackwell, and Ana Cabrera, called Afraid: Fear in America's Communities of Color.

During the contentious 2020 Presidential election and the Georgia Senate runoff, Walker was part of the election night team reporting on President Trump's repeated attacks against the Georgia Secretary of State baselessly claiming fraud. Her subsequent reports focused on the investigations into Trump's phone call pressuring the Secretary to "find" more votes after his loss to Joe Biden. She also reported on the presidential vote recount in Georgia.

Walker anchored the network's coverage of the ongoing humanitarian and political crisis in Venezuela; and the large-scale demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong, helming the network's rolling coverage of protesters storming the city's Legislative Council building. Walker was also live on the air as a fire ripped through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Other major live events Walker has anchored include the truck terrorist attacks in Nice, France and the Berlin Christmas market, La Rambla van attack in Barcelona, the attempted coup in Turkey, the deaths of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, the death of Ariel Sharon, the South Korea Sewol ferry

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Amara Walker, or Amara Sohn-Walker ( /ˈæmərə/; née Sohn), is an American journalist and a news anchor for CNN This Morning Weekend. She is also a correspondent on CNN. Since joining the network in 2014, she has anchored numerous hours of breaking news.

Walker, who is a Korean American, was born and raised outside Los Angeles. In 2003, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a double degree in broadcast journalism and political science.

Walker started her career at KMIR-TV in Palm Springs. In 2005, Walker joined the NBC-owned WTVJ in Miami, Florida, where she worked as a news anchor and a general assignment reporter.

In July 2012, Walker transferred her roles as a news anchor and a general assignment reporter to the Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago, Illinois, after moving there with her husband. In December 2013, Walker departed WFLD and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband, where she joined CNN International. From 2015 to 2020, Walker anchored a three-hour daily news program on CNN International’s CNN Today with colleague Michael Holmes.

In March 2021, Walker reported on air that she had been the victim of anti-East Asian insults. In February 2022, she published an opinion piece about violence against East Asian-American women. On October 8, 2022, she was officially named co-anchor of New Day Weekend, now CNN This Morning Weekend.

In April 2012, Walker married otolaryngologist and facial plastic surgeon Thomas Walker in Austria. Aside from her native English, she also speaks Spanish and Korean, although Walker has stated that her Korean is not proficient.

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