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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Miners working in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia who've spent at least 25 years underground have the worst rates of black lung disease. -
Since the so-called ceasefire went into effect nearly 10 months ago, over 1,250 Palestinians have been killed, including over 300 children, in routine airstrikes. -
Renee King-Sonnen traces her journey from the wife of a cattle rancher to an internationally-known animal rights activist who saved their herd from slaughter. -
As the Trump regime continues their brutal immigration crackdown, they are targeting the nearly 1.3 million immigrants who hold Temporary Protected Status in the US. -
The Land Back movement is growing rapidly across the country. California has returned over 100,000 acres of land to Native tribes and plans to return at least 7.5 million more. -
The Land Back movement is growing rapidly across the country. California has returned over 100,000 acres of land to Native tribes and plans to return at least 7.5 million more.
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ProPublica finds that while raw milk continues to sicken people, high level lawmakers and officials are pushing to expand the industry rather than curb the danger. -
In the most anticipated race of the night, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary. AIPAC spent $31M supporting Stevens. -
Trump made over $2.2 billion in his first year back in office, while 49 percent of US families report that they can’t afford basic necessities, according to the Urban Institute. -
In her new podcast, First America, Rebecca Nagle reveals how the founders’ treatment of Native nations shaped the foundation for American democracy and authoritarianism.
