PERSON: Kimberly Atkins Stohr

The Boston Globe

American Lawyer / Writer

Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a senior opinion writer and columnist for Boston Globe Opinion. She is also the inaugural columnist for The Emancipator, a joint independent antiracist multimedia project from Globe Opinion the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and author of its newsletter Unbound. She is also an MSNBC contributor, and co-host of the Politicon podcast #SistersInLaw. Previously, Kimberly was the first Washington, D.C.-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’s Washington Journal, and a Supreme Court reporter for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and its sister publications. She began her journalism career as an intern at The Boston Globe. 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 (U.K.), 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.

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