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Kimberly Atkins Stohr

2021 Speaker
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR is a senior opinion writer and columnist at The Boston Globe and lead columnist for the Emancipator, a joint venture by Globe Opinion and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. She is also an MSNBC contributor, a guest host for the NPR/WBUR-produced news program On Point, and co-host of the weekly Politicon legal news podcast #SistersInLaw. Previously, she was the first Washington, DC-based news correspondent for WBUR. She has also served as the Boston Herald’s Washington bureau chief, guest host of C-SPAN’s morning call-in show Washington Journal, and a Supreme Court reporter for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and its sister publications. She has appeared as a political commentator on a host of national and international television and radio networks, including CNN, Fox News, NBC News, PBS, NPR, Sky News (UK), and CBC News (Canada). Stohr is a graduate of Wayne State University, Boston University School of Law, Boston University College of Communication, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. @kimberlyeatkins