Yvette Walker is the Vice President and Editorial Page Editor covering the Opinion section for The Kansas City Star at McClatchy. She graduated with a degree in Northwestern and Missouri and currently in school from University of Missouri School of Journalism, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She joined McClatchy in 2023.



She has been a senior editor for five award-winning news outlets. She was part of the Star's team that won the 2024 Scripps Howard Distinguished Service to the First Amendment. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2020 and was a college dean of journalism at the University of Oklahoma's Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.