
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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InTyranny of the Minority, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt say it's up to us whether the US will be a multiracial democracy or not a democracy at all.
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Corporations in the US are spending millions of dollars on anti-union consultants to stop workers from unionizing, according to a new HuffPost investigation.
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What's the most effective way to respond to racism, gun violence, extreme abortion bans, book bans, anti-LGBTQ laws, and more in this country?
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Medicare finally has the power to negotiate drug prices, thanks to the Democratic Party's Inflation Reduction Act. Big Pharma is suing to keep high prices in place.
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Nearly one in 10 US adults over 65 have dementia. A new documentary focuses on the struggles and moments of deep connection and love experienced by families around the globe.
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According to a Propublica investigation, The World Bank Group project in Guinea has left a trail of hunger, displaced and broken families and decimated ecosystems
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Hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides are applied to California crops each year, the largest share of agricultural pesticide use in the United States.
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On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people gathered for the largest civil rights and economic justice gathering in US history. We'll discuss the march and where we are today.
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A six-month investigation found that Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and others overcharge the Pentagon for almost everything. Five Senators are asking the DOD to investigate.
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The recent murders of LGBTQ ally Lauri Carleton and gay dancer O'Shae Sibley are part of a rising trend of anti-LGBTQ violence. What can we do to stop this?