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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Trump said he called off a big immigration "surge" after speaking with San Francisco tech billionaires and Mayor Daniel Lurie. Will raids still happen in other cities? -
Protests begin in the Bay Area as federal agents arrive at Coast Guard Island in Alameda. We'll open the lines and find out how communities are preparing. -
Over 59,000 people are in ICE detention. Sixty-five percent had no convictions and 93 percent had no violent convictions, according to data obtained by Cato. -
Former assistance secretary of education Diane Ravitch discusses her new book, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else.” -
Surging electricity demand from data centers across the US is outpacing the supply of new clean energy sources, helping to sustain the fossil fuel industry. -
Trump’s 2026 budget proposes a $4.5B cut, about 30 percent, targeting programs related to climate research, including the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. -
Lisa Graves discusses her new book, "Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights." -
The GOP's sweeping spending and tax bill, which is now law, funds $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the wealthy through the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in US history. -
Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth has extensively covered the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US, where 3,104 students died between 1828 and 1970. -
Will Potter's new book exposes the powerful forces working to obscure reality and suppress protest, and animal agriculture's role in accelerating climate collapse.
