Dr. Delores Thompson’s Bio
A Bay Area native and radio 20-year veteran, Dr. Delores Thompson, shortly after high school she landed a coveted position with Oakland’s very own Soul Beat entertainment television where she dominated programming and entertainment reporting.
Upon relocating to Los Angeles, Delores began her 25 year long career in radio broadcast at 1230 KGFJ, and Stevie Wonder’s 102.3 KJLH-FM, where she was featured in “who’s who in Black LA” magazine and was dubbed “Southern California’s #1 Lady in the Mid-Day.”
Delores returned to the Bay Area, where the mother, minister, motivational speaker and Executive Director of her own non-profit “Sista Girl Network,” piloted the inaugural broadcast online radio station KOSA at the Oakland School for the Arts, where she has been blessed to start a broadcast department, she also volunteers her decades-long expertise at Oakland’s Youth Radio.
Delores joined 102.9 KBLX in the summer of 2016; Dr. Thompson can also be seen as a regular pundit for TV One’s music series “UnSung.”
In August 2019 Delores received an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Divinity from Next Dimension University.