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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Alongside educators from the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, we discuss the history and activism of the state's over 100 distinct tribes. -
In her new podcast, First America, Rebecca Nagle uncovers how the founders’ treatment of Native nations – and their resistance – shaped the foundations of US democracy. -
Alongside educators from the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, we discuss the history and activism of the state's over 100 distinct tribes. -
The Trump administration's budget and program cuts are affecting the lives of Native people across the country. With more cuts to come, how are tribes responding? -
In her new podcast, First America, Rebecca Nagle uncovers how the founders’ treatment of Native nations – and their resistance – shaped the foundations of US democracy. -
"Europe’s heatwave has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it—it’s the latest price to pay for fossil fuel pollution baking our planet," said Simon Stiell. -
California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild discusses how the state is ensuring an equitable transition to a green future and Trump's attacks on renewables. -
On the Tending Our Roots podcast, Miigis Gonzalez and Jill Fish feature guests working toward the collective health, healing, and well being of Indigenous communities. -
Philosopher and fascism expert Jason Stanley left the US for Canada last year, citing deep concerns over the Trump administration’s rapid dismantling US democracy. -
The SEIU-UHW backed ballot measure, which has qualified to be on the November ballot, is facing extreme pushback from Governor Gavin Newsom and tech billionaires.
