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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CrosscurrentsLocated a block away from the 24th street BART station, the Mission Grafica print studio and archive has empowered public art in the Bay Area since 1982.KALW is now hosting a gallery of some of their prints at our space in downtown San Francisco at 220 Montgommery, it is called ‘Mission Grafica: The Public’s Voice.’ -
CrosscurrentsAll month, KALW’s Queer Power Hour will be airing a special series called ‘When We All Get To Heaven.’ With archival tape it tells the story of one of the first gay-positive churches, the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s. The series is hosted by Lynne Gerber. Here's Lynne speaking with Crosscurrents host, Hana Baba. -
CrosscurrentsHana Baba recently took part in telling a scary story from her Sudanese culture as part of an evening of “Creepy Tales” from KALW’s Sights and Sounds show. -
CrosscurrentsTo understand what an escalation of federal agents means for San Francisco, and especially Latine immigrants in the Bay Area, we spoke with El Tecolote Investigative Reporter Yesica Prado. -
CrosscurrentsJoel Umanzor is a reporter for Richmondside. His five part series, “Restrained and Sedated,” investigates the deaths of two men who died after encounters with Richmond police officers. -
CrosscurrentsJoe Garcia is a reporter with CalMatters, and was incarcerated at San Quentin. He just published a story on how one mural came to be, and how he helped make it happen.He says it all started with his friend, Kai Bannon. -
CrosscurrentsPastor Stevenson Noel heads a community church in the North Bay, and estimates about 5000 Haitians living in the Bay Area. He says his congregation is living in fear and confusion. -
CrosscurrentsThe Bay Area is home to thousands of Haitians. In this segment of our Diaspora stories, Crosscurrents host, Hana Baba went to visit one whose restaurant was named one of the tastiest restaurants in the Bay Area by the SF Chronicle. -
CrosscurrentsAfter 31 years, the AIDS LifeCycle is taking it's final ride. We hear from KALW's Director of Operations & Strategic Growth, Jon Carroll, about why he's taking part, and what the ride has meant to him. -
CrosscurrentsToday, we hear an excerpt from the first episode of the new season of "The Nocturnists" and meet Doctor Emily Silverman, the founder and host of the series.
