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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Randi Weingarten's new book is a love letter to public school educators and an expose of the well-funded campaign behind attacks on teachers and the war on knowledge. -
Over 59,000 people are in ICE detention. Sixty-five percent had no convictions and 93 percent had no violent convictions, according to data obtained by Cato. -
Lisa Graves discusses her new book, "Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights." -
Raoul Peck, the acclaimed Haitian filmmaker, discusses his new film, which examines how George Orwell "foretold a chilling, all-too-believable authoritarian future."
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Trump says Smithsonian museums promote "divisive, race-centered ideology," and focus too much on "how bad slavery was." How is the public responding? -
The Center for Biological Diversity says Trump's actions on environmental protections could lead to irreversible climate catastrophe if they go unchallenged. -
Trump and his allies immediately responded to Kirk’s murder by blaming the "far-left" and left-wing extremism without knowing who did it or what the motivation was. -
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?
