Khari Thompson was a producer for Radio Boston.
He first worked at WBUR as a radio production fellow and Morning Edition field producer from 2018-2021 and came back to the station after two years as a sports reporter with Boston.com and WEEI.
Prior to that, he studied dinosaur paleontology at the University of Chicago and graduated with a M.S. in biological sciences from the University of Notre Dame.
Khari enjoys playing a variety of sports, eating Puerto Rican food, watching dinosaur documentaries, listening to "The Lord of the Rings" on audio book and being a proud dad to beautiful Maya.
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'We all we got': We've never seen anything like these Patriots
Patriots haters are mad that New England has already re-established itself as one of the NFL’s best teams, just six years after Tom Brady left, writes Khari Thompson. "It’s a...
WBUR Presents: The 2025 Makers
The natural world has been a powerful muse for artists across the ages, and in our present era, engaging with our environment is more urgent than ever. Meet 10 local...
Filmmaker Homa Sarabi maps her place in the world
The Iranian-born artist transforms memories and conversations into visual stories. Exploring longing, displacement, and belonging, Sarabi charts connections between cultures, people and place, even from oceans apart.
With ‘love and troublesome heart,’ Kendrick Lamar’s got us all watching
Lamar is an avenging angel of destruction with the heart of a healer, writes Khari Thompson. A champion willing to war with anyone who doesn’t treat hip-hop with the respect...
'Celtics City' shows Boston at its best and its worst. Its most loving and hateful
The new HBO documentary, “Celtics City,” shows how the team really is Boston — all of it together, writes Khari Thompson. The Black. The white. The love and hate. The...
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Life after prison: Four people share their post-incarceration experiences in Mass.
Radio Boston sat down with four people who spent years in prison in Massachusetts. We spoke about their past, re-entering society after incarceration and the changes they'd like to see...
What the latest Supreme Court decisions mean for Massachusetts
The Supreme Court has been busy lately, including releasing decisions on the Purdue Pharma settlement, the scope of charges for those accused of taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol...
'Shelters are full': Mass. officials head to southern border with message for migrants
WBUR state politics reporter Walter Wuthmann ajoins Radio Boston.
A champion at last, 'Boston man' Al Horford gives back to the city that embraced him
Al Horford served some lucky Celtics fans lunch on Thursday, the day before Boston celebrates his team's 18th championship win with a downtown duck boat parade.
What makes these NBA champion Celtics so special to Boston, on and off the court
Radio Boston celebrates the championship-winning Celtics.