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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The Nation's Sasha Abramsky argues that from ICE detention centers in San Diego to the US-Israeli war on Iran, Trump is making the lives of many miserable. -
One in five women in the US has experienced an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. How can we reach boys and men to end this cycle of violence? -
Climate crisis enablers expected more resistance to Trump’s extreme rollback of environmental policies. They are privately celebrating the silence of Democrats. -
The 2026 Bioneers Conference, which begins on Thursday in Berkeley, brings climate activists together to discuss how to build a more just, life-honoring world. -
In the second season of his podcast Master Plan, host David Sirota asks: if the founders wrote the Constitution to prevent a king, how did Trump gain so much power? -
More than 1,200 Iranians, 1,000 Lebanese, 14 Israelis, and 13 US soldiers have been killed. Is anyone in Washington calling for an end to this devastating war? -
In his book, "The Know-It-Alls," journalist Noam Cohen says Silicon Valley billionaires have taken a wrecking ball to many facets of society all in the name of profit. -
Katherine Stewart argues that the moral collapse of conservatism enabled the rise of authoritarianism under Trump. What will it take to restore democracy for all? -
As the Trump administration erases Native history ahead of the 250th, they are denying the crucial – and often erased – role of tribal nations in the making of the US. -
As the US–Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon enters its second week, more than 1,700 people have been killed across the region, bringing widespread death and destruction.
