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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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. -
The US and Israel are facing global condemnation for attacking Iran. Human Rights Watch says the deadly attack on a girls' school must be investigated as a war crime. -
As Trump calls on Republicans to "take over the voting in at least 15 places," right-wing extremists are urging him to use federal power to control the 2026 election. -
In her new book, Amy Littlefield interviews those in the anti-abortion and pro-abortion movements to find out how conservatives successfully overturned Roe. -
A bill in New Zealand aims to legally recognize the rights of whales, drawing on Indigenous stewardship and aligning with the global rights of nature movement. -
An investigation by ProPublica and High Country News shows wealthy ranchers and corporations profiting from federal animal grazing subsidies. -
More than 1,000 civilians, including 181 children under the age of 10, have been killed in the US–Israel war on Iran, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency. -
On Your Call's new series, Native historians, activists, and elders will share the stories and histories of these lands and the resilience of its first peoples. -
Trump has launched an assault on Iran with Israel, seized Venezuela’s president in a surprise air raid, said the US will "own" Gaza, and is threatening to takeover Cuba. -
According to the Iran human rights group HRANA, at least 740 people have been killed in Iran so far in the ongoing US–Israeli airstrikes.
