Johanna Miyaki
Community Engagement Manager | ProducerJohanna Miyaki is KALW's Community Engagement Manager and a newsroom producer. A KALW Audio Academy Alumni (2021-2022), she returned to the KALW newsroom as the Elections Production Manager for the 2024 General Election. She was a producer and editor at KCBS San Francisco, reported on Indigenous communities for El Tecolote, and worked on their podcast, Radio Teco. She has also worked as a freelance journalist, videographer, audio recordist, and field producer while making a career transition from a live event producer to a multimedia producer. Johanna was born in Washington DC, raised in Maryland, and now calls San Francisco home. She lives in Oceanview with her husband, daughter and their rescue, Rocco. Community work is in her DNA. She represents her local public library branch for the Council of Neighborhood Libraries, is a cofounder of the neighborhood group, We Are OMI, and the project director of their SF Parks Alliance group, Friends of the OMI Mini Parks. You can find her wandering trails in the Bay Area including the SF Crosstown Trail, and volunteering for the Crosstown Trail Coalition.
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Historian Kevin Kruse will discuss the ramifications of the Trump administration rewriting, whitewashing, and erasing history. How are educators responding? -
More than 150,000 federal workers have resigned, according to The New York Times. That number does not include the thousands of people who were laid off or fired. -
New research reveals why people of color who voted for Obama and people who voted for Biden didn't vote at all or voted for Trump. How are Democrats responding? -
Professor Barbara Walter says the thing that scares her the most is the "police state being built around us, in real time, disguised as something meant to protect us." -
More than a million federal workers have lost their collective bargaining and union protections. Trump has also cut wages and made working conditions worse. -
Every week, we'll summarize the latest news, from ICE arrests to the National Guard in DC, put it in historical context, and find out how people are responding. -
Two educators with more than four decades of experience between them discuss the state of public education, challenges in the classroom, and changes they'd like to see. -
Students face challenges inside and outside the classroom as cash strapped schools struggle with funding cuts. How can we support our students and protect our schools? -
CrosscurrentsBay Area teens focus on engaging their peers on local issues and getting to know their elected officials with a new podcast. -
CrosscurrentsRose Aguilar is the host of KALW’s “Your Call.” She shared some of her personal caregiving experiences, along with some advice for the event participants, on how to navigate their own journeys with caregiving.
