Gwen Walz (née Whipple; born June 15, 1966) is an American educator and public school administrator.

Prior to her husband's election as Governor of Minnesota, Walz worked for over two decades in the public school system as an English teacher.

Her first teaching job was in Alliance, Nebraska, where she met her future husband and fellow educator, Tim Walz.

[6][8] Walz joined Augsburg University in 2019 as a special assistant to the president Paul C. Pribbenow working twenty hours a week on various projects, including one that helped train East African immigrant teachers.

[10] Together with her husband, Walz established Educational Travel Adventures Inc., an organization that offered annual trips for students to China.

[10] Walz has given public speeches in favor of restoring voting rights to convicted felons, which Minnesota did under her husband's administration in 2023, and has advocated for gun control legislation.