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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Reporter Sonia Paul shares an update on a first-in-the-nation measure to add caste to state anti-discrimination laws. -
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.
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Salma Elassal is a renowned singer and percussionist from Sudan who is getting ready for a Berkeley show this weekend. And the show comes at a difficult time for her country. Accompanying Salma is musician and art therapist Mazin Jamal. Hana Baba talked with Mazin in between songs.
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For the past three months, we’ve been airing A Prayer for Salmon. It is a podcast and radio series about the Winnemem Wintu people and their fight to restore salmon on the McCloud River, where their ancestors lived. To mark the end, host Judy Silber speaks with the son of Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk.
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A school in Milpitas is talking to kids about violence happening thousands of miles away. We hear how Bay Area families are feeling about the war in Sudan.
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Dr. Farzana Saleem sees young people of color grappling with mental health issues that often get minimized or ignored. Now she wants schools to address the problem of racial stress and trauma.
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On Saturday, members of the Sudanese community held a rally in front of San Francisco's City Hall to express their reaction to deadly clashes ravaging their home country.
