Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a senior opinion writer and columnist at the Boston Globe with more than 20 years of experience covering politics, policy and law. She is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, a frequent panelist on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” and co-host of the popular Politicon legal news podcast #SistersInLaw as well as host of Justice By Design, also a Politicon podcast.

Based in Washington, D.C., Atkins Stohr focuses primarily on national political and legal analysis. But she has also written deep-dive series on other pressing topics for Globe Opinion, including the award-winning project on the racial wealth gap in collaboration with the Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research antiracism publication The Emancipator. She also authored a five-part Globe Opinion series on the climate and social justice impacts of the fashion industry. She has won numerous awards, and in 2023 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Previously, Atkins 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 and legal 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, Atkins Stohr was a civil trial and appellate litigation attorney in Boston, where she argued in a number of courts, including the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the federal 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals. She hails from Detroit, and is 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.