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. 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.
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On this week's episode of "Sights & Sounds," Marin Theatre Company's artistic director Lance Gardner gives his arts and culture suggestions happening in the Bay Area.
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Hua Hsu's Pulitzer Prize-winning book is a personal telling of his time as a student at UC Berkeley, his youth in the Bay Area, and the untimely death of his friend.
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A new California law will require venture capital industry to do something it has never done before: disclose the demographics of the founders they fund.
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A review of Sudan's Oscar entry 'Goodbye Julia'
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October 11 marks the International Day of The Girl Child. So ahead of the day, we wanted to look into an organization that celebrates girls and girlhood — and was founded here in the Bay Area.
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Reporter Sonia Paul shares an update on a first-in-the-nation measure to add caste to state anti-discrimination laws.
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California’s homelessness grew by 43 percent since 2012. While Texas was able to shrink its population down by 28 percent. This year, California officials went to Texas to learn how they did it.
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In this interview, Anjali Rimi shares their story about finding community in San Francisco.
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Christopher McDaniels, superintendent of the Bureau of Street Environmental Services in San Francisco’s Department of Public Works, talks about littering, illegal dumping, and how the agency is responding to the crisis.
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Just over a year ago, Uncuffed producer Tommy “Shakur” Ross walked out of the gates of San Quentin State Prison in a new fitted suit. He had been incarcerated for almost 37 years. Since getting out, he’s been to Norway, bought a new car, and started teaching audio storytelling to other formerly incarcerated people. We’ll hear from Shakur and his students in this Uncuffed special.