Bio

Hana Baba is a radio journalist- host of "Crosscurrents"- the award-winning daily newsmagazine on NPR station KALW Public Radio 91.7fm in San Francisco. She reports on immigrants and communities of color, health, education, race, identity, culture, religion, and arts. Her work also appears on NPR, PRI, BBC, OZY, and she is a TED speaker. 

​

Her work has won awards by the San Francisco Press Club , the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California, the National Association of Black Journalists- and she was named a Bay Area African Cultural Icon by the California Legislature. 

​

Hana is also co-host of the award-winning podcast The Stoop, which tells stories from across the Black diaspora. As a daughter of Sudanese immigrants, she enjoys exploring East African cultures, multiculturalism, intersectionality and the richness of experiences in African communities.

​

She is also an educator and lectures on radio and podcasting at San Francisco Bay Area colleges and universities.

​

A believer in newsroom diversity, Hana is passionate about bringing other people of color into journalism, and regularly speaks and consults on how to enter media fields to affect change in current media narratives about African, Black and Muslim communities.