Amara Walker

Amara Walker, or Amara Sohn-Walker (; née Sohn), is an American journalist, public relations official, and a former news anchor for CNN This Morning Weekend. She also was a correspondent on CNN. In 2003, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a double degree in broadcast journalism and political science.

Career 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. From 2015 to 2020, Walker anchored a three-hour daily news program on CNN International's CNN Today 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 February 2025, she announced she would leave CNN after more than ten years with the network. Porsche hired Walker in January 2026 as its North American vice president of public relations.

Personal life 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,

She revealed that her father is a Korean refugee who moved to the United States during the Korean War.