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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Given that it's impossible to keep up with daily shootings and deaths, where is the conversation about gun control? -
Trump says Smithsonian museums promote "divisive, race-centered ideology," and focus too much on "how bad slavery was." How is the public responding? -
The Center for Biological Diversity says Trump's actions on environmental protections could lead to irreversible climate catastrophe if they go unchallenged. -
Trump and his allies immediately responded to Kirk’s murder by blaming the "far-left" and left-wing extremism without knowing who did it or what the motivation was. -
Donald Trump and his allies immediately responded by blaming the "far left" for Kirk's murder. A number of people have lost their jobs for speaking out. -
We’re discussing the ongoing gun violence epidemic in this country. We planned this show before Charlie Kirk was shot and killed yesterday in Utah.
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Historian Kevin Kruse will discuss the ramifications of the Trump administration rewriting, whitewashing, and erasing history. How are educators responding? -
Kathleen DuVal's book begins in the year 1,000, long before Europeans arrived. One of the goals of this book is to reinsert Native American history into world history. -
Mariah Blake investigates the chemical industry's decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals and the citizens working to hold them accountable. -
In his book, Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Donald Trump and Elon Musk's anti-DEI and intellectual purges.
