Hana Baba
News Reporter/Host, CrosscurrentsHana Baba is an award-winning radio journalist and host of "Crosscurrents," the daily newsmagazine on NPR member station KALW Public Radio in San Francisco. She is also co-host/co-producer of The Stoop podcast, telling stories from across the Black Diaspora.
A Sudanese American, she enjoys exploring intersectionality and the richness of diaspora and immigrant community experiences in the Bay Area and beyond. Her work also appears on NPR, PRX, BBC, CBC, and others, and she has interviewed personalities like Levar Burton, Jimmy Carter, Stacey Abrams, and more.
Her work has won awards by the National Association of Black Journalists , the San Francisco Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Religion News Association, she is a Webby honoree, and more.
When she's not on the air, Hana speaks and consults with communities on how to enter media fields to affect change in current media narratives about African, Arab and Muslim communities. For this work, she was named a Bay Area African Cultural Icon by the California Legislature.
She also teaches radio journalism, lectures at Bay Area colleges, and is a voice and narration expert.
You can hear her on museum audio tours at SFMOMA, the De Young Museum, and The Legion of Honors.
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CrosscurrentsReporter Anna Sussman has been covering the world of incarcerated fire fighters and recently released her podcast “Fire Escape” which tells the story of one woman’s journey to rebuild her life and identity with a prison’s fire fighting team. -
Unlike visual media, which often emphasizes our differences- our appearances, our backgrounds, or our circumstances - audio cuts through all that- cutting through the surface and takes us directly to the heart of a story. -
CrosscurrentsA young Oakland woman from Sudan is digitizing old music cassettes for a new diaspora generation. What it means to preserve culture in a time of war. -
CrosscurrentsLaird’s Landing in Point Reyes National Seashore is known to the descendants of the Felix family as Felix Cove. And Theresa Harlan has been fighting to save her family's history there. -
CrosscurrentsWe're honoring International Migrant’s day by exploring the challenges migrants face. To learn more, we hear from Huy Tran, Executive Director of SIREN (Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network). -
Crosscurrents"Movement with Meklit Hadero," Is a podcast created by the Ethiopian American singer. In it she has intimate conversations with people like her: musicians who cross borders physically and with their sound. -
CrosscurrentsToday, we bring you a special episode of Crosscurrents. It's an audio tour of some of the institutions that have lasted, impacted, and changed San Francisco over time. -
CrosscurrentsIn August, the US Surgeon General issued an advisory declaring that parental stress to be a major public health issue. One group that’s been helping parents is Family Paths. They have a 24/7 hotline parents can call. -
An important panel discussion with community leaders, advocates and academics about the diverse Black electorate. Moderated by KALW’s Hana Baba, host of "Crosscurrents" and co-host of "The Stoop" podcast. Featuring panelists Pastor Michael McBride, Aimee Allison, and Professor James Lance Taylor. -
CrosscurrentsThe court case for the pro-Palestinian protestors who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge back in April is underway, where some face felony charges.
