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 that reimagines 19th-century abolitionist newspapers to reframe the current national conversation on racial justice. She is also an MSNBC contributor, a guest host for the NPR/WBUR-produced news program On Point, and co-host of the weekly Politico legal news podcast #SistersInLaw. Previously, Stohr 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). Before launching her journalism career, she was a trial and appellate litigation attorney in Boston. Kimberly is a native of Michigan, and a graduate of Wayne State University, Boston University School of Law and Boston University College of Communication, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Stohr has moderated several conversions for The Common Good, including The Future of Roe v Wade with Wendy Davis and Rising Leaders Series: Meet Letitia James. She is currently a member of The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board.
Twitter: @KimberlyEAtkins
Instagram: @KimberlyEAtkins
LinkedIn: @KimberlyAtkinsStohr
Selected Media:
WBUR The Future Of COVID: Confronting The Twists And Turns Of Scientific Uncertainty
WBUR The Supreme Court, Abortion And The Anti-Abortion Movement's Long Game
Boston Globe America, your democracy is in peril
Boston Globe If the Supreme Court doesn't want to be seen as partisan, it should show us the money
Boston Globe How Black women are advancing the cause of reproductive justice
