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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Activists and everyday people across the country are taking to the streets to resist Donald Trump and Elon Musk. How are they preparing for the many fights to come? -
People from all 50 states are taking to the streets to stand up against the Trump administration's attacks on human rights, the environment, and public services. -
Murray Carpenter argues that the Coca-Cola Company has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure we don't know that Coke is one of the deadliest products in our diet. -
Historian Christian Appy argues the resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in US. history. We have all but forgotten it today. -
Artists and writers discuss the importance of moving the voices and stories of the Vietnamese diaspora from the margins to the center. -
Vietnamese writers reflect on the end of the war and discuss "The Cleaving, Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora," a new book of conversations with over 30 writers. -
This year's free online Food Revolution Summit features doctors who will share the latest science on transforming the health of our communities and the planet. -
We discuss the climate crisis as the Trump administration dismantles and fires people at environmental agencies like NOAA. According to reports, the EPA is next. -
Jennifer Levin was 32 when her dad was diagnosed with a rare illness. After struggling to find resources for millennial caregivers, she started the Caregiver Collective. -
In his book, "Red Scare," Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Trump and Musk's anti-DEI and intellectual purges.
