Crosscurrents

Hana Baba

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Booking Overview

Crosscurrents is KALW’s community-focused news magazine featuring local Bay Area stories at the intersection of culture, identity, and social life. It’s a strong outlet for PR teams that can offer mission-driven, human-impact narratives—especially around LGBTQ+ history, community care, and public-interest projects.

Metrics

Episodes: 2863

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 319 subscribers

Instagram: 8.3k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Hana Baba - Host of KALW Public Radio’s Crosscurrents. She leads the Bay Area news magazine focusing on joyful, informative stories that connect communities across economic, social, and cultural divides.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
PR-relevant guests are typically creators/leaders of public-interest media (documentaries/projects), local community leaders, and subject-matter experts connected to social-impact storytelling in the Bay Area.
Required Achievements:  
Major media awards (e.g., Peabody), Credited roles in documentary or public-history projects, Leadership in community-based LGBTQ+ or social-impact initiatives

Recent Guest Discussions

Lynne Gerber - The Documentary’s Story Of A Gay-positive Church During The AIDS Crisis; Lgbtq+ Community Survival And Public/political Context Of The Era.

Recent Topics

LGBTQ, Public Health, History, Religion, Social Justice

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Crosscurrents
:

SHOW: San Francisco's Legacy of Queer Community Care

June 04, 2026

Today, we explore a series that captures San Francisco at the height of the AIDS epidemic. It's a conversation with the host of “When We All Get To Heaven.” Then, we visit the Bay Area’s first women’s sports bar- Rikki’s. Plus, a poem about found family. 

How San Francisco's first gay-positive church weathered the AIDs crisis

June 04, 2026

Pride Month is a time to celebrate accomplishments of LGBTQ+ individuals, and commemorate the ongoing fight for the whole community to gain equality and justice. It’s also a time to remember and honor those we’ve lost. That includes the millions of people that have died of AIDS-related illness.That’s the aim of the Peabody award winning documentary project, ‘When We All Get To Heaven.’ With archival tape it tells the story of one of the first gay-positive churches, the Metropolitan Community ...

BOUNCE Ep. 3: Rikki's - The Bay Area's First Women's Sports Bar

June 04, 2026

In June 2025, San Francisco welcomed its first women's sports bar: Rikki’s! In honor of Rikki’s first anniversary, here’s the story of how it came to be, from the host of Bounce, KALW’s Erin Lim. 

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