Justin Ebrahemi
Associate Director of CommunicationsJustin (they/he) drives KALW’s communications strategy to help transform how independent media engages, reflects, and impacts diverse Bay Area communities. As KALW’s Associate Director of Communication, Justin curates and implements institutional marketing, manages media partnerships, and creates content across web, social media, and on-air.
Justin bring nine years of experience in audience analytics, digital marketing, and communications and fundraising strategy to his role at KALW. Justin previously worked at KQED Arts & Culture and CounterPulse, where they engaged dynamic Bay Area communities with in-person programming and digital content. As an arts writer, their work has been published in KQED, Content Magazine, and SFMOMA’s Open Space platform, in addition to publishing two poetry books on the Iranian Jewish diaspora.
With a background in public media and performing arts, Justin is passionate about amplifying the Bay Area’s artistic and activist stories and connecting audiences with truth and civic discourse. They hold a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Media studies from California State University, Monterey Bay, and a master’s in Environment & Community from Cal Poly Humboldt. In his free time, Justin enjoys running through Golden Gate Park, ice skating, and making bad music with their friends.
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CrosscurrentsJustin Ebrahemi is KALW’s Communication Manager… and he’s also a poet! Here he shares a piece about dancing with modern Persian identity called "Brief Islands." -
As Middle Easterners, we know all too well how the media weaponizes our peoples’ suffering as political rhetoric for government interest. Our grief is exploited for talking points or leveraged for foreign military intervention—or utter inaction in the face of a humanitarian crisis.
