Grew up in Indiana and Texas, but neither American children's programming nor Hollywood could compete with the folktales she heard from her Sudanese elders. "It's always been at the back of my mind and heart that these stories deserve a global stage," she says. "They deserve to be heard just like Hänsel and Gretel, Sindbad and Aladdin." Gorgeous radio journalist;she upholds her family's long lineage of storytelling in her own right; amongst other things, Baba is the host of CrossCurrents, a daily radio newsmagazine that broadcasts on KALW Public Radio 97.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area