About Hana

Hana Baba is a radio journalist - the longtime host of "Crosscurrents"- the award-winning daily newsmagazine on NPR station KALW in San Francisco. Her audio work also appears on NPR, PRX, BBC, CBC and more.

Hana is also co-creator and co-host of the award-winning podcast The Stoop, from Radiotopia and PRX, telling stories from across the Black diaspora. As a daughter of Sudanese immigrants, she enjoys exploring stories about diaspora and immigrant life, and how people are living intersectional lives with feet in two or more worlds. She also co-hosts the spin-off Stoop Talks on the Luminary network, interviewing prominent Black personalities.

Hana is creator and storyteller of the Ambie award-nominated podcast Folktales from Sudan, the first audio storytelling podcast of Sudanese folk stories in English, also performing stories at libraries, schools and festivals.

She also produces for media projects such as The Home Collective, from National Geographic

Hana is passionate about bringing other people of color into journalism, and regularly speaks and consults on how to enter media fields and how to create change in current media narratives of communities of color. 

Her work has won awards including the Society of Professional Journalists - Northern California, the National Association of Black Journalists, the San Francisco Press Club, the Goldziher Prize for Excellence in reporting on Muslim Americans, the Religion News Association, Society for Features Journalism, Black Podcasting Awards, Signal Awards, Ambie nominee, and she was recognized by the California Assembly for her work.

Hana is also a narrator, voice coach, educator, and has lectured on radio and podcasting at USF, SFSU, CSU, UC Berkeley, PRX Podcast Garage, and has spoken at PodFest, Afros and Audio, She Podcasts, Third Coast Audio Fest, Nation Association of Black Journalists, Arab Women's Conference, Sudanese American Public Affairs Association, SONOHR Fest-Switzerland, the Africa Media Conference and TED.