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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COP30 ended with a resolution that failed to mention fossil fuels. Colombia and the Netherlands said they will co-host a fossil fuel transition conference next April. -
Trump is escalating immigration crackdowns across the US, terrorizing communities who now live in a constant state of fear. How are journalists covering these raids? -
More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil, according to the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition. -
Though the US has emitted more climate-warming pollution than any other nation, the poorest countries will suffer the vast majority of these temperature-related deaths. -
Many media outlets are still hesitant to call Trump an authoritarian even as scholars say he is embracing authoritarian policies, including attacking the press. -
Legal scholar Ray Madoff discusses her new book, "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy." -
A ProPublica analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities. -
Last year, President Biden rejected suggestions from advisers to reduce US involvement in Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza, according to the HuffPost. -
The Frontline documentary 'Born Poor' follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through their teen years to young adulthood. -
SNAP funds will finally be released and healthcare premiums are expected to increase by $500 or more a month for 24M people if Republicans refuse to extend subsidies.
