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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This story orginally aired on December 12, 2012 and it aired most recently in the December 11, 2023 episode of Crosscurrents. Many air strikes were… -
CrosscurrentsCommunity Responders: Oakland’s Alternative to the Police, is a series that focuses on one non-police crisis response program. What else is out there? -
Throughout the series Coming Home to the Cove, we heard Theresa Harlan tell the story of her Coast Miwok family’s eviction from Tomales Cove. Now, we hear what that storytelling experience was like for her. -
Recently, the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists recognized, A Prayer for Salmon for excellence. We asked Judy Silber to come in and give us an update on the tribe. -
Imagine you walk into a restaurant and it’s dark - so dark that you can’t see the tables, you can’t see your dinner companions and you can’t see the food. Welcome to Blind Cafe. -
Lance Gardner has been in the Bay Area theater scene for over 20 years, both on stage and behind the scenes. In his new role, he’s emphasizing collaboration. -
On this week's episode of "Sights & Sounds," Marin Theatre Company's artistic director Lance Gardner gives his arts and culture suggestions happening in the Bay Area. -
Hua Hsu's Pulitzer Prize-winning book is a personal telling of his time as a student at UC Berkeley, his youth in the Bay Area, and the untimely death of his friend.
