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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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CrosscurrentsThis story most recently aired in the July 17, 2024 episode of Crosscurrents.July is Disability Pride month, so we are bringing back this conversation…
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CrosscurrentsWhat if you hear someone verbally attacking a stranger with racial slurs. What do you do? Say something? Physically intervene? How? Bystander intervention training teaches people how to react and what to do.
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CrosscurrentsCatherine Ndungu-Case is the founder of Cheza Nami, an award winning African arts organization. Catherine has led Cheza Nami in pioneering African dance and music in school assemblies across the Bay Area.
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CrosscurrentsThe International Women’s Media Foundation recently honored Tasneem Raja, with its Gwen Ifil award. The award was given for her leadership in local journalism and legacy of training of journalists from underrepresented communities.
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CrosscurrentsAdults of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander descent seek mental health services much less than any other demographic group in the country. And seniors in those AANHPI communities are particularly vulnerable. They can experience loneliness, anxiety from anti-Asian hate crime and language barriers to accessing mental health services.
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CrosscurrentsStudent reporters have been at the center of pro-Palestine encampments across the world. But what's it like being a student reporter today?
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CrosscurrentsEntrepreneur and musician Gatore Mukarhinda spoke with Crosscurrents host Hana Baba for her series "Diaspora Stories."
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CrosscurrentsOyo is an Afro-South American restaurant- and the founding chef Maurice Dissels came from his home country of Guyana. He grew up in his grandma Oyo’s kitchen, and serves dishes he learned from her.
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CrosscurrentsDJ King Most is Bay Area DJ royalty. Also known as Patrick Diaz, his DJ lineage can be traced all the way back to his seventh grade dance. Now, his special brand of musical “redirections” are in demand with tech giants, celebrity DJ sets, and large art institutions.
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CrosscurrentsToday, we’re going to meet the newest beat reporters in our KALW Newsroom, Wendy Reyes and Mary Catherine O'Connor. They are also both graduates of our Audio Academy. I sat down with them recently in our studios for a chat about their reporting.