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 CallDr. Uché Blackstock's new book is "as much about my work and awakening as a physician as it is a call to reimagine who we are as a country."
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Your CallDavid Mas Masumoto's new book tells the story of his aunt, who was taken as a "ward of the state" in 1942. Seventy years later, Masumoto finds out his aunt is alive.
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A Grist investigation reveals how 14 public universities continue to benefit from extractive industries on stolen Indigenous land.
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Your CallMore than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed during the US-backed Israeli assault since October 7. More than 13,000 of those deaths are children.
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Your CallRepublicans on AZ's Supreme Court reinstated an 1864 abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest. This follows FL's high court, which allowed a six-week ban.
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In his new book, Dr. Hotez writes, "I'm fearful for the future of our scientific institutions. We must restore the people's trust in science and scientists."
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The new documentary Orca: Black & White Gold exposes the illegal trade in endangered wild orcas caught in Russia and sold to China, all fueled by US business practices.
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The documentary Blue Carbon explores the power of coastal ecosystems to absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than tropical rainforests.
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Israel has generated "famine-like conditions" in Gaza, "while obstructing and undermining the humanitarian response," according to Refugees International.
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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.