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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On the Tending Our Roots podcast, Miigis Gonzalez and Jill Fish feature guests working toward the collective health, healing, and well being of Indigenous communities. -
Philosopher and fascism expert Jason Stanley left the US for Canada last year, citing deep concerns over the Trump administration’s rapid dismantling US democracy. -
The SEIU-UHW backed ballot measure, which has qualified to be on the November ballot, is facing extreme pushback from Governor Gavin Newsom and tech billionaires. -
In his new book, "The Return of the Oystercatcher," Scott Weidensaul writes about how species that once neared extinction are now multiplying around the world. -
Amid the decimation of the Voting Rights Act and Trump’s moves to whitewash US history, Black activists discuss the meaning of Juneteenth and the fight for basic rights. -
On The Nation's Fighting Fascism podcast, Aaron Regunberg and Matt DaSilva explore the movements that have defeated authoritarianism to find lessons for fighting Trump. -
In "Know We are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance," California Indian authors write about how Indigenous communities are resisting the legacies of genocide. -
Scientists are sounding the alarm after the Trump administration said it plans to dismantle a deep-sea observation system that provides critical data on ocean health. -
An investigation by The Appeal found that executives at Palantir and other companies contributed more than $1.7 million to 168 members of Congress. -
What began as an environmental protest in Albania has turned into a protest against the government, as an accumulation of all citizens’ grievances.
