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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The new documentary, 'Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,' captures the life of 25-year-old photojournalist Fatma Hassona as she lives through the assault on Gaza. -
‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ recreates an emergency call with a five-year-old girl trapped in a car under Israeli fire as first responders desperately try to save her. -
In "Injustice," Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis expose how Merrick Garland's cautious approach delayed investigations into Trump's efforts to overturn the election. -
As the majority of Americans struggle financially, healthcare costs are set to soar after Republicans refused to extend ACA subsidies. Experts call it a death spiral. -
In Judith Enck's new book, she reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, a warming planet, and human health. -
Trump has escalated his attacks against the press by insulting journalists, filing lawsuits against news organizations, and defunding the CPB. -
In "We Survived the Night," Julian Brave NoiseCat writes about Indigenous culture, the dark history of residential schools, and a deeply personal father son journey. -
There have been 23,000 book bans in public schools since 2021, according to PEN America. Authors discuss this surge in censorship and the fight for the right to read. -
In "The Trillion Dollar War Machine," Bill Hartung and Ben Freeman write that if the money spent on wars had been spent at home, US society would be transformed. -
A Capital & Main investigation exposes the state’s failure to protect the health and safety of thousands of underage farmworkers in California.
