News anchor, social activist and disability rights leader Bree Walker is one of America's most instructive symbols of self-empowerment in the face of complex challenges. Born with a rare genetic hand and foot anomaly called ectrodactyly, a syndrome marked by the absence of conventional fingers and toes, she has vaulted from success as a rock-and-roll disc jockey to greater acclaim as a television news anchor in the nation's two largest markets. Along the way, she became the most prominent American media celebrity with a visible physical difference, obliterating the barriers a cosmetically-obsessed society might have been expected to put in her way. She's won a variety of awards and honors including Emmys and Golden Mikes, as well as the National Courage Award and the Dole Foundation Media Awareness Award for her work on behalf of all people with disabilities. In 1992 (as a registered Democrat no less) she was designated one of President George Bush's "1,000 Points of Light".

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