Hana Baba

San Francisco

Journalist at KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA)

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Articles

Uncertainty in medicine

2 weeks ago | kalw.org | Hana Baba

This segment aired in the May 19, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the play button above to listen! Uncertainty is all around us, never more so than today. It can be something we wrestle with when thinking about our finances, relationships, the economy... and even our health. Medical care is full of uncertainty: from ambiguous diagnoses to unpredictable outcomes and the complex emotions of not knowing.
East Bay author takes young readers to Kenya

3 weeks ago | kalw.org | Hana Baba

This interview aired in the May 13, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen! Many of us grew up not seeing people who look like us in books at school, in libraries. Lack of diversity has been an issue in literature for a long time. And for today’s kids, with book bans and attacks on diverse literature happening nationwide, the need for books and stories that tell all our stories is crucial.
Trump tariffs threaten the fabric of Chinatown communities

1 month ago | kalw.org | Hana Baba |Victor Tence

These conversations aired in the May 6, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen! The Port of Oakland is usually very busy. During a typical year, the port will process over two and a half million cargo containers. But, if you are crossing the Bay Bridge in the next few weeks, you might notice less and less shipping traffic coming in and out… and the ships you do see are expected to get smaller and smaller.
Impact of Trump's first 100 days on clean transportation projects.

1 month ago | kalw.org | Mary Catherine O'Connor |Hana Baba

This conversation aired in the May 1, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen Since the Trump administration put a hold on funding for climate programs back in January, federal support for a wide range of climate related projects has been thrown into question. KALW’s Climate reporter, Mary Catherine O'Connor, talks about that uncertainty – and some possible areas of progress.
LIVE Interview with Uncuffed

1 month ago | kalw.org | Hana Baba

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.
Literary powerhouse tells stories that bridge cultures, generations, and identities

2 months ago | kalw.org | Hana Baba

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.
Cleaning up toxic waste takes longer in marginalized communities

2 months ago | kalw.org | Hana Baba

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.
Introducing "The Sights + Sounds Show with Jeneé Darden"

2 months ago | kalw.org | Hana Baba

This conversation aired in the March 12, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen! If you’re a regular Crosscurrents listener, you’ve probably heard KALW’s Jeneé Darden’s interviews with local artists.
Dating apps track bad actors but fail to ban them

2 months ago | kalw.org | Hana Baba

This conversation aired in the March 10, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen. Even if you are not on Tinder or Hinge, it’s very likely that you know someone who is on these apps… or in a relationship that started because of them. Dating apps are now the most popular way to meet a potential partner. But there are some downsides. Some people lament that the apps have made it harder to meet people in real life. There are concerns about privacy. And then there’s safety.
john a. powell on fostering belonging

Mar 6, 2025 | kalw.org | Hana Baba

This interview aired in the March 6, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Right now it’s easy to feel how divided our society is. And, it’s not just a feeling. It’s measurable. At the end of last year a Gallup poll showed that 80 percent of American adults believe we are divided on our values. That’s a record high. And that number is up from 2016, when they last ran the poll. Is there a way to turn this around? And what would those first steps look like?