KALW
- Call Letters: KALW
- Frequency: 91.7FM
- http://www.kalw.org
- Affiliations: BBC, NPR, PRI, APM, and NFCB and Greater Public
- Networks: Sound Opinions Private Network, PRX Remix Select, Reveal, LA Theatre Works Private Network, and American Public Media
KALW is rooted in the Bay Area and inspired by the world. We create and curate programming that is informative, innovative, inclusive, and entertaining. We nurture new and underrepresented voices. Our goal is to engage the individual and strengthen the connections between us.
With its diverse leadership and staff, and the voices of the communities we serve, KALW Public Media is on a mission to inspire audiences and tell the human story in all its breadth and richness. Justice, equity, and community creation are at the heart of everything KALW does.
The station is shaping public media’s future by building upon its legacy for innovation and what’s next, as well as by training, nurturing and amplifying local voices and makers. The station will continue to seek out and showcase the best from around the globe, and serve as an essential and trusted source for news, music, culture, podcasting and digital media.
Series
151 Pieces
New for 2023! A five part 6 minute mini-series for Women's History Month. 2015-2020: A weekly, one-hour show about how women rise up.
- From: KALW
- Updated: Feb 22, 2023
460 Pieces
Award winning writer, radio host, NPR contributor and novelist Sandip Roy brings his wit and insight to these personal audio diaries from his new life in his old home, India.
- From: KALW
- Updated: May 18, 2015
- From: KALW
- Updated: Jan 28, 2011
- From: KALW
- Updated: Jan 17, 2017
Latest Pieces
In the Bay Area, Yemeni-Americans are mostly young men, mostly in the East Bay, and often in the business of managing or owning the family corner s...
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 06:30
At KALW News, we're still celebrating the San Francisco Giants' 2010 World Series victory. As part of it, we created an hour-long documentary all a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 05:28
- Purchases: 1
When Mary Ellen Donald was eight years old, she fell in love with the piano. Around that same time, she was also diagnosed with macular degeneratio...
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 07:12
Call-ins bring violent offenders face to face with police and attorneys so they can access services such as education and employment training. Soun...
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 10:18
Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was gunned down on the morning of August 2, 2007 as he was walking to work. This past Monday, the jury was sele...
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 05:02
This piece looks at what it means to be transgender through a profile piece, and also explores transgender health disparities through the frame of ...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 1
Maya Elena Scott-Chung married her partner MeiBeck in 2004’s Winter of Love. They married again in 2008 after courts annulled their first union. As...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
Last month, hundreds of protesters gathered to call for the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. One of them was Libyan-American Hoda Emneina. She was bor...
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 08:36
We’re thinking more about what we eat, where we buy it … and how we can use food to connect with our communities. Those are fundamental principles ...
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 05:56
The 29th annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival kicks off this week. There will be 120 film works playing from San Francis...
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 07:20
Staff of KALW
 |
Ben Trefny (Admin)
|
 |
Malihe Razazan (Admin)
Senior producer |
 |
David Boyer (Admin)
|
|
Eric Wayne (Admin)
|
 |
Lauren Schiller (Admin)
|
|
Angela Johnston (Admin)
|
|
KALW Studio (Admin)
|
|
Shereen Adel (Admin)
|
|
Jon Carroll (Admin)
|
|
Mario Butzner (Admin)
|
