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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Mariah Blake investigates the chemical industry's decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals and the citizens working to hold them accountable. -
In his book, Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Donald Trump and Elon Musk's anti-DEI and intellectual purges. -
Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller write, "In many cases, we don’t know what has happened to our contributors since they spoke to us. We can only hope they have survived.' -
More than 150,000 federal workers have resigned, according to The New York Times. That number does not include the thousands of people who were laid off or fired. -
New research reveals why people of color who voted for Obama and people who voted for Biden didn't vote at all or voted for Trump. How are Democrats responding? -
Labor historians say Donald Trump is the most anti-union President in US history. Over 1,000 Workers Over Billionaires actions are happening across the country. -
On August 10, five journalists were killed by the Israeli military. Another five were killed on Monday. At least 247 have been killed since the October 7 attacks. -
We Are Not Numbers elevates the voices of young Palestinians who fight to be recognized not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams, and lives worth living. -
Professor Barbara Walter says the thing that scares her the most is the "police state being built around us, in real time, disguised as something meant to protect us." -
More than a million federal workers have lost their collective bargaining and union protections. Trump has also cut wages and made working conditions worse.
