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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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. -
The Trump administration is laying off scientists and taking down websites with crucial environmental tools and information. -
CrosscurrentsOld movies bring together gay San Franciscan's in Christopher Tradowsky's "Midnight at the Cinema Palace." Tradowsky pulls from his own experience of 90s San Francisco to tell the story of three friends. -
Book ItWalter, Cary, and Sasha: lovers, screenwriters, urban adventurers. But Walter feels the urge to stretch beyond that, and beyond them. -
The conservatives on the Supreme Court ruled that South Carolina Medicaid patients cannot use their coverage at Planned Parenthood for preventative care. -
The FDA has allowed more than 20 foreign factories to send drugs to the US even though they were made at plants that the agency had banned, according to ProPublica. -
The Trump administration's backlash against LGBTQ identities and communities has led to major corporate sponsors pulling out of Pride celebrations across the country. -
Book ItBerkeley poet and author Mary Mackey on climate change, resilience, and hope with "In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse."
