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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Your CallVoting rights groups and attorneys are pushing back against what they describe as unprecedented election interference by the Trump administration ahead of the midterms. -
Your CallBillionaires, AI companies and a new donor class are pouring millions into San Francisco’s election, from Mayor Lurie’s charter push to the race for Pelosi’s seat. -
According to the Environmental Voter Project, 11.2M environmentalists did not vote in the 2024 presidential election. What's being done to mobilize climate voters? -
A ProPublica investigation exposes how the Trump administration has tried to use the federal agency tasked with protecting voting systems for its own ends. -
The Texas Senate race has topped $500 million in spending, with Elon Musk pouring nearly $200 million into the campaign to support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. -
Your CallIn his latest book, Jacob Silverman explores how a small circle of tech billionaires got incredibly wealthy, moved toward ideological extremism, and embraced Trump. -
Your CallAs billionaires spend $243M to defeat Prop 40, we discuss why the ultra-rich pay lower tax rates than working families and what an equitable tax system would look like. -
The wealthy are spending $1 million a day to oppose the billionaire tax and Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein is spending $17 million to support the voter ID prop. -
We speak with climate scientists Dr. Genevieve Guenther and Professor Michael Mann about how to effectively discuss the climate emergency and take meaningful action. -
In his new book, journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed investigates why President Joe Biden and his top advisers continued to support Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza.
