Holly Kernan
News DirectorHolly Kernan is the architect of the award-winning Public Interest Reporting Project. She is currently news director at KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco. In 2009 she was named Journalist of the Year by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Kernan teaches journalism at Mills College and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and has taught at Santa Rosa Junior College, Youth Radio and San Francisco State University's Lifelong Learning Institute. She lives in Oakland with her husband, Mike, daughter, Julia, and retired greyhound Benjamin Franklin.
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CrosscurrentsAs we near the end of Black History Month, we’re going to revisit an interview we did for our series “Witness to History.” -
More than 120,000 people in the United States are in line waiting for an organ transplant. According to the Department of Health and Human Services,… -
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California was recently granted an extension to meet the federal government's mandate to reduce its prison population. That extension came with specific… -
Nell Bernstein is the coordinator of the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership and the author of Burning Down the House: The end of… -
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San Francisco is the only city in California where the voters choose their public defender. Since 2002, the city has elected Jeff Adachi. He comes from a… -
Brian Copeland has a weekly radio show on KGO. Today he is a radio personality, actor, comedian, writer, and performer, but like many of us, he says he… -
On any given night in the U.S. there are more than 600,000 people who are homeless. In San Francisco, the government estimates there are about 6,400… -
Isabel Allende is one of Latin America's most beloved writers -- and she happens to call the Bay Area her home. Born in Peru and raised in Chile, the…
