Rose Aguilar
Host, Your CallRose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.
Rose has written for Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, Truthout, The Nation, and AlterNet. In 2014, Flyaway Productions turned her Nation cover story about older homeless women into a dance performance.
She's a member of the Native American Journalists Association and mentor-editor for The OpEd Project, an organization that works to increase the range of voices we hear in the media.
In 2005, Rose took a six-month road trip through the so-called red states to learn about why people vote the way they do (or not). She wrote about her journey in Red Highways: A Journey into the Heartland.
Before joining KALW, Rose published a newsletter about women's issues and was a reporter and weekend host for CNET Radio, where she covered technology's impact on society. In college, she ran the TV and radio news departments and DJ'd a heavy metal show.
Rose's interests include hiking, vegan living, live music, and spending as much time underwater as possible.
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Former assistance secretary of education Diane Ravitch discusses her new book, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else.” -
Randi Weingarten's new book is a love letter to public school educators and an expose of the well-funded campaign behind attacks on teachers and the war on knowledge. -
In 2024, the removal of four dams on the Klamath River marked a historic victory for an Indigenous-led movement, achieving the largest river restoration project in history. -
Will Potter's new book exposes the powerful forces working to obscure reality and suppress protest, and animal agriculture's role in accelerating climate collapse. -
Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth has extensively covered the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US, where 3,104 students died between 1828 and 1970. -
Raoul Peck, the acclaimed Haitian filmmaker, discusses his new film, which examines how George Orwell "foretold a chilling, all-too-believable authoritarian future." -
Legal scholar Ray Madoff discusses her new book, "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy." -
In her new book, Thea Riofrancos explores the environmental and social costs of the race to embrace green solutions like electronic cars by expanding lithium mining. -
As millions struggle to make ends meet, the wealth of the top 10 percent is up to $113 trillion, up $5 trillion between April and July, according to the Federal Reserve. -
Bogalusa, a predominantly Black community in Louisiana, has seen dozens of shootings and a violent crime rate approaching twice the national average.
