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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States that have banned abortion are the same ones that do the least to help pregnant people and new parents make ends meet, according to In These Times. -
There have been a slew of closures and layoffs in the media industry. Since 2004, weekday newspaper circulation has plummeted by 57 percent.
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San Francisco is receiving national media attention about crime, homelessness, addiction, and vacant skyscrapers. What are the facts and what are real solutions?
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In their forthcoming book, The Tyranny of the Minority, Harvard Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are calling for reforms. Will we save or lose our democracy?
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The plan expands work requirements for SNAP recipients who receive $4-6 a day on average. Republicans also successfully fought to protect wealthy tax dodgers.
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After the Taliban takeover, thousands of desperate Afghans have taken an arduous and perilous journey through central America to reach the US.
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In the first quarter of this year, 268 people have died from accidental overdoses, according to the medical examiner. What explains San Francisco's worsening drug crisis?
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In her new book, Dr. Judith Herman says the first step toward a better form of justice is to ask trauma survivors what would make things as right as possible for them.
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The Republican debt ceiling bill would cut billions from vital social programs, including food assistance. A deal must be reached by June 1.
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On on May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old murdered 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary. Many parents are now pressuring politicians to pass basic gun control laws.
