Ericka Cruz Guevarra is the host of The Bay. Before that, she was the show’s producer. Her work in that capacity included a three-part reported series on policing in Vallejo, which won a 2020 Excellence in Journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Ericka has worked as a breaking news reporting at Oregon Public Broadcasting, helped produce NPR's Code Switch podcast, and was KQED’s inaugural Raul Ramirez Diversity Fund intern. She’s also an alumna of NPR’s Next Generation Radio program. Send her an email if you have strong feelings about whether Fairfield and Suisun City are part of the Bay. @NotoriousECG

Alan Montecillo is the senior editor of The Bay. He came to KQED from central Illinois, where he was a senior talk show producer at WILL in Champaign-Urbana. He has also worked at Oregon Public Broadcasting and was the founding producer and editor of the award-winning podcast Racist Sandwich. He was raised in Hong Kong and graduated from Reed College. 

María Esquinca is the producer of The Bay. Before that, she was a New York Women’s Foundation IGNITE Fellow with Latino USA. She has also covered the San Joaquin Valley for Radio Bilingue. Maria has interned at WLRN, News 21, The New York Times Student Journalism Institute and at Crain’s Detroit Business as a Dow Jones News Fund Business Reporting Intern. She is an MFA graduate from the University of Miami. In 2017, she graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication with a Master of Mass Communication. A fronteriza, she was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico and grew up in El Paso, Texas. 
@m_esquinca