
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.
-
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.
-
CrosscurrentsThe California Migration Museum doesn't exist in any one space. Instead, they recently launched a catalog of immersive experiences that are entirely digital and portable!
-
CrosscurrentsTo hear about what the next generation of Bay Area voters is focused on, KALW recently hosted a Youth Power Listening Party as part of our live series, Bay Agenda.
-
Two Bay Area non-profit organizations made a “land back” announcement official.
-
CrosscurrentsPeople serving time in federal prisons are denied the right to vote, but they still care about elections. Today, we go inside San Quentin’s mock elections.
-
CrosscurrentsCoast Miwok Indians can be traced back nearly 5000 years to the land known today as the Point Reyes National Seashore. A Coast Miwok family wants the US National Park Service to restore – and give them access to – their ancestral home nestled in a small cove on Tomales Bay.