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 in the Bay Area and beyond. Her work also appears on NPR, PRX, BBC, CBC, and others, and she has interviewed personalities like Levar Burton, Jimmy Carter, Stacey Abrams, and more.
Her work has won awards by the National Association of Black Journalists , the San Francisco Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Religion News Association, she is a Webby honoree, and more.
When she's not on the air, Hana speaks and consults with communities on how to enter media fields to affect change in current media narratives about African, Arab and Muslim communities. For this work, she was named a Bay Area African Cultural Icon by the California Legislature.
She also teaches radio journalism, lectures at Bay Area colleges, and is a voice and narration expert.
You can hear her on museum audio tours at SFMOMA, the De Young Museum, and The Legion of Honors.
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CrosscurrentsToday, an update on Oakland’s community response program for non-violent, non-emergency 911 calls. How and when you can call them, and what they’re doing for Oaklanders. -
CrosscurrentsYou can see it coming from miles away. The driverless car revolution is fast approaching. And the vanguard is right here in the San Francisco Bay Area. -
CrosscurrentsProject 2025 is the plan for Trump’s first 180 days in office put together by The Heritage Foundation. Today, we focus on immigration to see how the proposed policies would affect California and the Bay Area. -
CrosscurrentsUC Berkeley Sociolinguist Justin Davidson is on a mission to make American Spanish an officially recognized language. He is studying the speaking patterns of Spanish-English bilinguals to create a “linguistic map” of American Spanish. -
CrosscurrentsThe 2024 Olympics are over, and people around the world are taking stock, celebrating wins and counting their countries’ medals. For people from South Sudan, their basketball team’s success was a surprise highlight of the games this year. -
Firefighters in the state are increasingly struggling with PTSD, depression, and suicide. Reporter Julie Cart from CalMatters has been reporting on this, and wrote a six part series investigating what’s causing this mental health crisis, and what’s being done about it. -
CrosscurrentsZiyad Saleem is a Sudanese American student at UC Berkeley and he’s competing in the summer Olympics, for Sudan — a country that has sent swimmers to the Olympics before — but today, it’s a very different reality. -
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… -
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. -
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.
