KALW

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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.

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  • Updated: May 31, 2007
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Context, culture and connection from around the Bay Area.

  • From: KALW
  • Updated: Jan 04, 2011
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Stories of emerging musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area -- in their own words and music. Produced by KALW.

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  • Updated: May 20, 2014
Caption: Student teacher Diana Arbas in her classroom.
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Diana Arbas is a student teacher at Oakland High School, and this is Diana’s radio diary of her first year of teaching.

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  • Updated: Oct 09, 2013
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KALW has partnered with radio producers inside California's oldest prison to bring you the San Quentin Prison Report, a series of stories focusing on the experiences of these men, written and produced by those living inside the prison's walls.

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  • Updated: Mar 25, 2015
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The Sights & Sounds of Bayview is a radio series featuring stories about the remarkable people who live, work, and make a positive impact in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood. This series was produced by KALW 91.7FM's storytelling project 'Hear Here', in partnership with the San Francisco Arts Commission.

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  • Updated: Mar 24, 2018
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The Litography Project is an interactive and evolving map that honors the Bay Area’s literary past, present, and future.

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  • Updated: Nov 28, 2014
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The Spiritual Edge is a radio and web project from KALW Public Radio in San Francisco that will explore the innovative American spirit through the lens of spirituality and religion.

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  • Updated: Dec 29, 2014
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Stories of leading women working in STEM industries in the Bay Area. Produced by KALW.

  • From: KALW
  • Updated: May 20, 2014
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A good story has the power to make you listen deeply, tuning your ear to something beyond yourself. The Emergence Magazine Listening Hour is a new special series exploring the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality. Featuring interviews, narrated essays, poems, and immersive audio experiences from the world’s leading ecological thinkers, writers and artists, it brings you stories that illuminate pathways back to connection with the living world. 12 episodes / New episodes drop every Monday, beginning April 22.

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  • Updated: Apr 15, 2024

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Aid agencies like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders have already poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the relief effort in Haiti. ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:13
Caption: Olin Thomas and Hugo Salinas, Credit: San Francisco StoryCorps
Olin Thomas grew up Mormon in the deep south, confused by his homosexuality and deeply in the closet, in no small part because of the church's atti...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
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A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down. But what if the medicine itself were sweet? People with allergies are especially anxious to find...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
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President Barack Obama's first executive act when he took office in 2009 was to issue a memorandum that said he was "committed to creating an unpre...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:34
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This story has all the excitement of a day at the races: ladies in fancy hats, frazzled handlers, strutting owners, and surly gamblers. But the ani...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
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Caption: Sokhom Mao (right) will be the next Commissioner of the Alameda County Juvenile Justice/Delinquency Prevention Commission
Twenty-four-year-old Sokhom Mao was one of California’s foster kids. He’s one of the few who went on to college – in 2010, Mao graduated from San F...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 10:43
Caption: Downtown Watsonville in Santa Cruz County, a place known for innovations in juvenile justice, Credit: Rina Palta
California’s attorney general says the state has a correctional crisis. KAMALA HARRIS: We have a prison system right now that is accommodating twi...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 10:44
Caption: Harmeet Dhillon is the chairwoman of San Francisco’s Republican Party.
San Francisco’s Republican Party has a new chair, and it’s not your average Republican. Let’s take some demographical statistics of GOP supporters....

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
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Caption: Brian Perkins with San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Credit: Photo courtesy StoryCorps
San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier has lived quite an eventful life. But arguably the most remarkable event happened during her time spent as a ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
Caption: Extreme cyclists gather before the race, Credit: Dara Kerr
Cutting your gas bill, your carbon footprint, or your waistline: these are some of the reasons to bike more. And in San Francisco, biking has incre...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
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