On this episode of North Gate Radio, five reporters explore how the intersection of food and community shapes the fabric and future of the Bay Area. You’ll hear from an Indigenous chef in Oakland reconnecting with her ancestors through a new cookbook, a legendary restaurateur reflecting on how the B…

On this episode of North Gate Radio, five reporters explore how arts and music serve as vessels for storytelling and community building throughout the Bay Area. You’ll hear about the Oakland musicians composing original songs inspired by literature, how artist Diedrick Brackens weaves stories about…

On this episode of North Gate Radio, five reporters explore how people across the Bay Area are dealing with technology and its impact on the human experience in a rapidly changing world. You’ll hear about the repair café volunteers in Silicon Valley saving electronics from landfills, a young mother…

On this episode, six reporters trace how student activism in the Bay Area sparks movements for social change, nationally—and how each generation continues to reshape what’s possible. This episode moves across time and tactics, from the 1968 San Francisco State strike that birthed the nation’s first…

It’s a new year and North Gate Radio is asking what it would look like to level up our goals, not just for ourselves, but for our communities. In this hour-long episode, we’ll break down “Just Transition” — a roadmap built over decades to move from an extractive economy to one that regenerates resou…

The Bay Area has always known how to win — from the Giants’ World Series titles to the Warriors’ championships, the 49ers’ Super Bowl runs, and the Sharks keeping the ice alive. Now women’s sports are claiming that same City of Champions legacy, turning San Francisco — and the whole Bay — into a nat…

Dying often involves a set of choices, rituals, and conversations we tend to avoid until we can’t. In the Bay Area, people are confronting that reality head-on: talking openly in “death cafés”, seeking natural burials, flying loved ones home across borders to honor final wishes. On this episode of N…

North Gate Radio presents The Stakes Explained, a student-produced multi-media special from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism where professors, journalists, and community members unpack President Trump’s executive orders and actions to examine what’s at stake for democracy. Born out of She…

From the Bay to Bogotá, reporters dove deep into how communities are coming together in times of strife. In Oakland, statewide homelessness policy is shaping how advocates are organizing in the face of sweeps. Also, federal funding cuts are coming down hard on an LGBTQ center on the shores of Lake M…

It’s pretty stressful out there right now, so this week, our reporters went to find out what people do when they are not spiraling about the current state of affairs. They discovered that they collect cute little figurines in the form of ‘Blind Boxes’, they form new women’s elite rugby teams and the…