Erin Baldassari covers housing for KQED. Before this, she was a transportation reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times writing about the Bay Area’s housing shortage and how it has changed the way people move around the region. She earned a Pulitzer Prize for her work on the East Bay Times’ coverage of the Ghost Ship Fire in Oakland. Erin grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills and in Sonoma County.

Adhiti Bandlamudi covers housing for KQED. Before this, she covered tech and South Bay news for the station. She also reported on gun violence at WUNC in North Carolina as part of the Guns & America fellowship program. She participated in NPR’s Kroc Fellowship program in 2017 and was a production intern for APM’s Marketplace show. She’s originally from the East Coast and dreams of Southern rain storms.

Erika Kelly is the senior editor of KQED’s housing affordability desk covering the Bay Area housing crisis. Erika has been at the center of the newsroom’s coverage of the wildfires and led KQED’s participation in the 2016 San Francisco Homeless Project. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a native of the Greater Chicagoland Area.

Jen Chien is Director of Podcasts at KQED and co-founder of the Editors Collective and Edit Mode. Previously, she was Executive Editor for LWC Studios, Senior Radio Editor at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and Managing Editor for Crosscurrents and KALW News. Awards recognitions include Third Coast, Peabody, Gracies, ONA/OJA, and SPJ Sigma Delta Chi. She holds a BA in American Studies from Smith College, and an MA in Interdisciplinary Performance from New College of California.

Laura Klivans is an award-winning climate journalist based in San Francisco. She reports for KQED Public Radio with regular features on NPR. She hosts the PBS Digital Studios nature show Deep Look, which has more than 2 million subscribers, and for which she’s won three SF/NorCal Emmys. She’s taught radio at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and led international programs in Bangladesh, Peru, and Thailand. Laura has a masters in journalism from UC Berkeley, and a masters in education from Harvard.

Vanessa Rancaño reports on housing and homelessness for KQED. She’s also covered education for the station and reported from the Central Valley. Her work has aired across the public radio, from flagship national news shows to longform narrative podcasts. Before taking up a mic, she worked as a freelance print journalist. She’s been recognized with a number of national and regional awards. Vanessa grew up in California's Central Valley. She's a former NPR Kroc Fellow, and a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Ezra David Romero is a climate reporter for KQED. He covers the absence and excess of water in the Bay Area — sea level rise, flooding and drought. For more than a decade he’s covered how warming temperatures are altering the lives of Californians. His work has appeared on local stations across California and nationally on public radio shows like Morning Edition, Here and Now, All Things Considered and Science Friday.

Kevin Stark is a senior editor for KQED Science, managing the station's health and climate desks and directing its coverage of wildfires, floods and more. His work has appeared on National Public Radio, the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal and WBEZ in Chicago. Kevin joined KQED in 2019, and has covered issues related to energy, wildfire, climate change and the environment.

Otis R. Taylor Jr. is the Managing Editor of News at KQED. His focus is on the role of systemic inequity in journalism, working with reporters and senior editors to bring a cultural competency to story production and editing as they reframe the station’s coverage of diverse communities. Previously, he was an East Bay Columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and an investigative reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While at the Chronicle, Taylor extensively covered housing, policing, race, and inequality. For that work, he received the 2020 Journalist of the Year award from the NorCal chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Danielle Venton is a reporter for KQED Science. She covers wildfires, space and oceans (though she is prone to sea sickness). Before joining KQED in 2015, Danielle was a staff reporter at KRCB in Sonoma County and a freelancer. She studied science communication at UC Santa Cruz and formerly worked at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland where she wrote about computing. She lives in Sonoma County and enjoys backpacking.

Brendan Willard is an audio engineer at KQED. He works on KQED’s The California Report Magazine and Bay Curious radio shows. Brendan has been working in the audio field for the last 25 years, with a diverse background including music editing for cartoons, studio engineering with bands and orchestras, recording in the London Sewer System and up in a tiny prop plane over Maine. Brendan grew up in Altadena, CA. He loves cycling and long hikes to mountain lakes that are barely warm enough to swim in.