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 news 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. Community work is in her DNA. She represents her local public library branch for the Council of Neighborhood Libraries, is a member of the SF Crosstown Trail Coalition and a SF Big Art Loop Liaison. You can find her wandering Bay Area trails, volunteering in her neighborhood, and daydreaming about her next travel adventure.
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Crosscurrents16-year-old Charlie Zeitlin is Legislation Subcommittee Vice-Chair of the Palo Alto Youth Council. KALW News Editor Sunni Khalid spoke to him about what matters to the next generation of voters in Silicon Valley. -
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. -
Raoul Peck, the acclaimed Haitian filmmaker, discusses his new film, which examines how George Orwell "foretold a chilling, all-too-believable authoritarian future." -
Hungarian journalist András Pethő and former Hungarian Parliament member Gábor Scheiring watched Hungary become an authoritarian state. They share lessons for the US. -
Californians approved Prop 50, a measure that will give Democrats five seats held by Republicans. Prop 50 is a response to Trump's demand for Texas to draw new maps. -
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?
