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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Maersk, the company responsible for the cargo ship that destroyed the Baltimore bridge, has a history of silencing whistleblowers, according to The Lever.
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Your CallSeveral of Boeing's top leaders are stepping down as reports of safety issues with the 737 MAX planes and institutional failures across the company continue to pile up.
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Your CallThe Ireichō is the first comprehensive list of every name of the 125,284 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during WW2.
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Israel's six-month assault on Gaza has killed over 32,000 Palestinians, including 12,000 children, & wounded more than 75,000. Entire neighborhoods have been demolished.
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The festival, which focuses on how we can protect, restore and celebrate the ocean, runs from April 12-14, followed by an online program from April 15-22.
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More than 1,500 people have been killed in gang violence in Haiti this year, according to the UN. "Countless children" could die due to malnutrition, according to UNICEF.
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Last week, six former Mississippi cops got sentences of 10 to 40 years for torturing and abusing Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, two Black men, in Rankin County, MS.
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Your CallTsuru for Solidarity is joining immigrant rights group to demand the closure of the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigrant detention center in Tacoma, WA.
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Your CallFar-right funders who played a hand in overturning Roe are also backing plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case challenging the FDA's approval of mifepristone.
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As millions struggle with economic precarity in the US, what will it take for the media to focus on what poverty and life without a social safety net really looks like?