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Hana Baba
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Journalist, KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA)
San Francisco
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Biography
Hana Baba is a journalist with 20 years experience in the world of radio journalism. She is a reporter and host of "CrossCurrents"- a daily radio newsmagazine that broadcasts on KALW Public Radio 97.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area. She interviews and reports on ethnic communities, poverty, health, culture, religion, arts, and the global nature of the San Francisco Bay Area. Her freelance work appears on NPR programs, PRI's The World, BBC World Service, and New America Media. An Arabic speaker, she also reports on Arab and Muslim communities and issues. A Sudanese-American, Hana enjoys reporting from and about Sudan and Sudanese in the diaspora. She is Secretary of the Sudanese Association of Northern California. Hana also enjoys emceeing live events and recording voice overs for nonprofits. She is the voice of the audio tour of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's permanent exhibit, and is an aspiring author of an audiobook of Sudanese folk tales told in English. Specialties: radio journalism, voice talent
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Content
By Hana Baba Verified| KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA) Verified This conversation aired in the April 10, 2025 episode of Crosscurrent. Click the button above to listen! Uncuffed is KALW's show that empowers people in California prisons to tell their own stories. Long time listeners will recall that a few years back Uncuffed lost the majority of their funding overnight. But we didn’t lose the program because the community stepped up and decided this was worth saving. Today, we hear from Greg Eskridge.
By Hana Baba Verified| KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA) Verified This interview aired in the April 3, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Press the button above to listen! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer celebrated worldwide. She is the author of acclaimed novels like “Half of a Yellow Sun” and “Americanah,” as well as the viral TED Talk "We Should All Be Feminists," which reshaped conversations on gender and power. Her manifesto "The danger of the single story" is studied worldwide as a guide to narrative diversity. And she has Bay Area roots.
By Hana Baba Verified| KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA) Verified This conversation aired in the March 27, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Press the button above to listen. The Bay Area is no stranger to “Superfund Sites.” Toxic areas in need of extensive and careful clean up. Recently, The SF Public Press concluded an investigation into 20,000 of them across the Bay Area’s nine counties. They examined the length of time it took to clean up and found that it often took longer to clean sites located within communities of color.
Company Info
KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA)