Hana Baba

Hana 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.