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Hana Baba

News Reporter/Host, Crosscurrents

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. Her work also appears on NPR, PRI, BBC, and others, and she has interviewed personalities like Levar Burton, Jimmy Carter, Stacey Abrams, David Oyelowo, Uzo Aduba and more.

Hana regularly speaks and consults with communities on how to enter media fields to affect change in current media narratives about African, Arab and Muslim communities. She also teaches radio journalism, is a lecturer of the UC Berkeley Podcast Bootcamp, and is a voice and narration coach.

Her work has won awards by the National Association of Black Journalists , The Goldziher prize, the Religion News Association, the San Francisco Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, she is a Webby honoree and was named a Bay Area African Cultural Icon by the California Legislature.

  • Crosscurrents
    You may hear DJ Marcus Rosario on the air on the weekends here on KALW. Every Saturday and Sunday, he hosts his music show and curates playlists that air from 12-2pm. In this interview Marcus talks about this new era of AI music curation, how it’s affecting his job, and the current music scene.
  • Crosscurrents
    Ramadan is here and Bay Area Muslims have begun their fast from food and drink from sunup to sundown. And when the sun goes down, it’s time to eat and drink. We try to get in our veggies and fruits. But there’s one fruit that reigns supreme in this month — the date — that dark, soft and sweet Middle-Eastern fruit of the date palm.
  • Crosscurrents
    In this interview with KALW's own DJ Eryka Vargas, we hear about their music selection, musical influences, and what counts as country music.
  • Crosscurrents
    Black History Month is winding down and we wanted to know: what’s the history of Black History Month?
  • Crosscurrents
    A new documentary tells the story of Betty Reid Soskin, it's about a different part of her life many of us may not know about.
  • You don’t have to work in the waste industry to know that we live in a “throw-away” society. But it’s not just about how much waste Americans create. It’s about consumption habits. But what if we built other industries designed to counter that waste?
  • A 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.
  • While the majority of the world’s Christians celebrate Christmas on December 25th, a number of Orthodox sects follow an older-than-Gregorian calendar. They celebrate every year on January 7th.
  • Flamenco performer Carolina Lugo recently died and to honor her legacy here in the Bay Area, we're revisiting this conversation with her and her daughter…
  • This story orginally aired on December 12, 2012 and it aired most recently in the December 11, 2023 episode of Crosscurrents. Many air strikes were…