Angie Coiro
Host and ProducerAngie Coiro is an American radio host, guest host of KALW’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and On The Arts with David Latulippe. For 15 years, she hosted and produced the syndicated interview show, In Deep with Angie Coiro, focusing on genuine conversations with smart thinkers, entertaining personalities, and influential political figures. Prior to that, she was the host of Mother Jones Radio on Air America Radio.
Coiro began her broadcasting career in Indiana at WETL-FM, and continued at KGU-AM in Honolulu, eventually moving to San Francisco for an announcer stint at National Public Radio station KALW-FM. In 1990 she moved to National Public Radio station KQED, first as announcer, then hosting news, The California Report, and Friday Forum.
Angie is the journalist in residence at Kepler’s Literary Foundation in Menlo Park, where she hosts the current event series “This Is Now”. Her guests have included Roxane Gay, Al Gore, Heather Cox Richardson, Temple Grandin, Walter Isaacson, Rebecca Solnit, Simon Winchester, Adam Grant, and Mary Roach.
Angie is currently developing a new show with KALW about the connection between humans and the rest of the animal world.
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Cinema professor Allyson Field writes about Something Good—Negro Kiss, the first known film to portray Black affection. The 1898 film was lost for over a century. -
Over 2,000 people have been killed and over 26,000 have been injured in Iran as Trump escalates his threats ahead of his 5pm PT deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. -
Mitigation specialist Elizabeth Vartkessian argues that situating crimes and the people who commit them in context is crucial to restoring humanity to our justice system. -
ProPublica reports that American children are being left with friends or strangers in the US as their immigrant parents are detained or deported by ICE. -
According to polling from The Washington Post, 56 percent percent of the American public do not think Trump has the mental sharpness to effectively serve as president. -
After the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs Trump imposed last year, he announced a new 10 percent global tariff. Why won’t the media call his actions illegal? -
The commercial licenses of 20,000 immigrant drivers in California – about 35 percent of whom are Sikh – have been temporarily restored, after devastating the community. -
Local queer communities are already embracing the bay area's new women's basketball team. -
CrosscurrentsDesigner Lee Felsenstein is legendary. He’s one of the Electronic Frontier Foundations’ "Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier"; a Laureate of The Tech Museum in San Jose; and a Fellow of the Computer History Museum. His new autobiography is "Me and My Big Ideas: Counterculture, Social Media, and the Future." -
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has long helped sustain public media stations, announced it will shut down after losing $1.1 billion in federal funding.
