About
www.shukakalantari.com/journalist
Shuka Kalantari is a health and culture reporter living in the Bay Area. She is Outreach Coordinator for KQED Public Radio’s Health Dialogues, where she works with citizen journalists throughout California and does reporting for the web and radio. She is also a producer for KPFA Pacifica Radio’s Voices of the Middle East and North Africa (VOMENA), and freelances for KALW Radio’s Crosscurrents.
Shuka’s focus is in health disparities and health policy, with a particular emphasis on Middle Eastern & Latino communities in California. A Philosophy & Spanish Studies graduate from the University of California, Santa Cruz, she received a Masters degree in Multimedia Health and Medicine Reporting from The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism in 2007, and is the proud recipient of the 2011 New America Media Fellowship Program on Health, Health Care and Environmental Health; 2009 California Health Journalism Fellowship; and both the 2010 Association of Health Care Journalist Ethnic Media Fellowship in Chicago and the 2011 Association of Health Care Journalist Ethnic Media Fellowship in Philadephia. Shuka is also the recipient of a scholarship for the 2010 National Health Policy Training Alliance for Communities of Color in New Orleans.
She has produced radio broadcasts for KQED Public Radio, KALW Public Radio, and KPFA Pacifica Radio. She has written for Time Inc.’s Health.com, Common Ground Magazine, The Westside Spirit, KQED’s Arts Blog, and other publications.