People

Debi Kennedy is a member of the Bay Area Broadcast Legends and earned a Peabody Award for coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake as an airborne reporter.  She also has two RTNDA Awards for coverage of the 1989 earthquake and the 1991...

Devon Strolovitch studied medieval Judeo-Portuguese manuscripts and earned a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University before coming to KALW.  Since 2007 he has hosted Fog City Blues, the Wednesday night digest of Blues in the Bay...

One of the most creative and versatile programmers in radio, Dore Stein is an advocate for cross-pollinating music.  He is producer/host of Tangents, a program that explores the bridges connecting various styles of music, including...

Edwin Okong’o is an African-born award-winning writer, journalist, humorist and satirist.  He has worked as an associate editor and communications director at New America Media, and a reporter...

Emmanuel Nado is at the forefront of promoting African music and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He is from Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa, a country which for many years has been the crossroad of African popular music. As a journalist,...